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Exploration (with Byfleet Heritage Society) - 20 July '08 - Wisley Common |
Ranger James' Adler introduction to the common
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Previewing Surrey Wildlife Trust's new grazing centre
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Discussing a free-range Datura
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The remains of a giant puffball
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James performs a tentative, toe-based analysis
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Not dead birch leaves - but rather a gourmet's delight: a colony of chanterelle
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The Oblong-leaved Sundew Drosera intermedia is more localised in the South-east
and slightly smaller than most common Round-leaved Sundew.
The inflorescences in this picture are only about an inch long, arising characteristically from the
side of the rosettes, and are about to bloom. | © Mariko Parslow
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Flower Walk - 8 June '08 - Molesey Heath |
Apion rubens gall, on
Rumex acetosella caused by a rare weevil specific to Rumex acetosella, Sheep's Sorrel, producing swellings on leaves' midrib.
In this case the host plant was a little strange one, which did not quite key out to it, possibly a close hybrid or a garden cultivar of Sheep's Sorrel, in any case something close to it.
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Fungal Foray, led by Brian Spooner - 11 November '07 - West End and Esher Commons
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Brian's Masterclass
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Mushroom Man
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Now were smokin' - a puffball having been persuaded to relieve itself of a few spores
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Unusual for the area - a hoof fungus
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The Persil Puffball boy
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Dragonfly and Natural History, led by Don Tagg - 1 July '07 - Thursley Common
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The board walk - recovering from being burnt in 2006
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© Mariko Parslow |
Abundant Rhizina undulata fungi near a line of Scots pine - Mariko says these fungi have a penchant for previously burnt areas | M.P. |
Watching Wood Larks
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Plentiful Cotton grass Eriophorum angustifolium - 7 July |
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Supplemental Flower Walk - 15 June '07 - Molesey Heath
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Having ascertained its rarity for the area, Mariko and Brian returned to Molesey five days later to photograph this Vicia bithynica Vetch
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© Mariko Parslow |
Brian has been recording at Molesey Heath for years - but not seen Vicia bithynica prior to this specimen
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Vicia bithynica | M.P. |
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Flower Walk - 10 June '07 - Molesey Heath
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| The Group | C.P.
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Investigations around a Horse radish patch | © Patricia Poyton |
The ochre-coloured, Taphrina populina forming a gall on a Hybrid poplar leaf … and a friend | C.P. |
A bee alighted on a native wild orchid … or is it? | C.P. |
Goat beard seed-head | C.P. |
A warbler-spotting interlude | C.P. |
A growth on a willow | C.P. |
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Tree Walk - 13 May '07 - Oatlands
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Embarking on the sodden tree walk | © Mariko Parslow |
| Refuge from the deluge under a giant red oak
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Dick Alder and Brian Spooner revealing some of Oatlands' majestic tree specimens
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