Category Archives: MNA reports

A rather cold and sodden start to the 2016 MNA Coach programme. A small group of Starlings and a lone Oyk were on the grass as we parked beside Holyhead maritime museum. Turnstone on the shore and Red-breasted Merganser in … Continue reading →

Catrin Watkin of the School Of Environmental Sciences, Liverpool University has been awarded the Eric Hardy Memorial Prize 2016 for her MRes thesis ‘Fine-scale habitat associations of bats: implications for conservation’. Catrin (middle) is pictured along with Prof George Wolff … Continue reading →

Despite the warnings of high winds and torrential rain, nine members met at the Lakeside café at the south end of the lake for this easy short walk (11am to 1pm) looking for water and woodland birds. Sefton Park is … Continue reading →

I took myself to the National Memorial Arboretum near Lichfield on a Timewells coach trip, attracted by the promise of yet more interesting trees. It turned out to be a bit of a let-down, because the managers of the site … Continue reading →

Honey Fungus A damp, cool Autumnal feel to the air for my morning wander around Dibbinsdale. A nice start with a cluster of Honey Fungus Armillaria mellea on the fallen Beech Tree Fagus sylvatica beside the path sloping down from … Continue reading →

Last MNA Coach Trip of the year. We dropped off ten members who were to have a guided walk around Rothsherne Mere before walking across to Tatton Park. The remaining seven of us stayed on the coach the short distance … Continue reading →

Seven members stayed on the coach to Tatton Park, some to see the deer, but my goal was the garden, to look at the trees and learn some of the rarer ones. On the lawn of Charlotte’s Garden was a … Continue reading →

Clustered Bonnet Despite the weather being dry for the past week I was hopeful to find some Fungi during my morning wander around Dibbinsdale. A mixture of common species to begin with Candlesnuff Fungus Xylaria hypoxylon, Porcelain Fungus Oudemansiella mucida, … Continue reading →

After visiting Belize and Guatemala last year to indulge in a bit of Mayan culture now it was the turn of the Incas with a couple of weeks in Peru. We experienced a variety of sites including the inevitable Machu Picchu, the … Continue reading →

Morning wander around Dibbinsdale, a nice early find was a sticky Beefsteak Fungus Fistulina hepatica. I headed to the area where I found the erupting Common Stinkhorn Phallus impudicus last weekend – no emerged specimen or characteristic smell about though. … Continue reading →