Category Archives: MNA reports

FROM TONY CARTER Sunday 12th April 2015 The Ken Jordan Memorial Foray. Ten hardy souls attended this North West Fungus Group foray, including David Bryant and Joanne Moore from the Biodiverse Society Project. I walked round the area on Tuesday, … Continue reading →

On Monday (30th March) a Sparrowhawk killed a Wood Pigeon in my garden and it has been coming back at least twice a day to feed on the carcase. The kill was on Monday afternoon. I was just coming back … Continue reading →

It was raining when I set out this morning, but I stopped on the way to the bus to admire this newly-blooming Magnolia in one of the gardens on Liverpool Road. We planned to go to Walton Hall Park, but … Continue reading →

The first MNA coach trip of 2015 saw us returning to Marton Mere SSSI on the outskirts of Blackpool.  We disembarked and wandered past some allotments which had good stands of rhubarb and some dried up globe artichokes. Plenty of … Continue reading →

This was one of the MNA’s short walks, from 11am to 1pm, intended to attract newer members, and those that haven’t been out for a while. Eight people turned up, four regulars and four who we don’t see very often, … Continue reading →

Tony Carter reports: I am frequently asked what mycologists do in the winter when fungi do not grow. But they do. Winter is when the bracket and crust fungi come into their own, many shedding their spores at this time … Continue reading →

Tony Carter reports : On Tuesday 13th March I went for a quick walk round Calderstones Park before the threatened snow arrived. Under some Cupressus leylandii, at the Menlove Avenue end, I found a small patch of the Striate Earthstar Geastrum striatum … Continue reading →

Keel-billed Toucan Ramphastos sulfuratus, the National Bird of Belize Just returned from a couple of hectic weeks in Central America visiting Belize with a couple of days in Guatemala. We thoroughly enjoyed visiting a number of wildlife areas including Crooked Tree, Cockscomb … Continue reading →

Tony Carter reports: Last week, I decided to take a look at Raven Meols Hills in Formby as I hope to run a foray there next year. It has a good mix of sand dunes, conifer, birch scrub and heathland. … Continue reading →

Tony Carter reports:  An interesting example of fungal opportunism was in evidence in Liverpool in November. At the place where I park my car every day, the fallen leaves had been swept from the pavement and piled into the gutter … Continue reading →