Today in pictures

[davemac]

Originally Posted by kestrelx

Again some good photos - but I'm still waiting for one of a buzzard they are big enough to get a decent photo of!

Never seen a buzzard, and if I did you would be the first to see the photo

[Gremlin]

These are not very good photos but they do contain a buzzard and a few red kites, so I was told when I took them. We rented a nice lodge on a farm at Rhyader in Welshland and the farmer fed the birds every day.

[susie123]

Originally Posted by Gremlin

These are not very good photos but they do contain a buzzard and a few red kites, so I was told when I took them. We rented a nice lodge on a farm at Rhyader in Welshland and the farmer fed the birds every day.

Russell, you're too modest, those photos are fine! The birds must have been quite a sight. W used to have a pair of buzzards around when we lived in the Wiltshire countryside, but they were always so high in the sky so didn't get any photos of them.

[Gremlin]

Half past three every day the birds start arrive and hover about until the farmer arrives with his tractor, then he throws the meat about and the skies fill with Red Kites.

The crows and buzzards manage to get good belly full.

The farmer has built a few hides just below the place where he throws the meat and charges four quids entrance to the farm area. We got a free look in because we had rented his lodge for the week.

[maxthecollie]

Originally Posted by Gremlin

Half past three every day the birds start arrive and hover about until the farmer arrives with his tractor, then he throws the meat about and the skies fill with Red Kites.

The crows and buzzards manage to get good belly full.

The farmer has built a few hides just below the place where he throws the meat and charges four quids entrance to the farm area. We got a free look in because we had rented his lodge for the week.

We went there last September and it was absolutely peeing down so I never even got my camera out. Your pics are great.Love the kite in flight.

[Gremlin]

We went in April and I was very surprised how nice the weather was, you can see by the photos how sunny it was.
The pub down the lane was not bad for a meal or a pint but there wasn't a lot else to do in the area for people like me who is not into walking or hill climbing, it's the age thing.
We had a look around the reservoirs and the visitors centre there, the little red brick building in the farmers field was an access point for the underground tunnel which takes water to Birmingham, we got a chance to see in it when the inspector came.

[kestrelx]

Good pics of the buzzards etc - red kites have now been released in Grizedale - Lake District and I'd think they have a feeding station up there as well.

[davemac]

Originally Posted by Gremlin

Half past three every day the birds start arrive and hover about until the farmer arrives with his tractor, then he throws the meat about and the skies fill with Red Kites.

The crows and buzzards manage to get good belly full.

The farmer has built a few hides just below the place where he throws the meat and charges four quids entrance to the farm area. We got a free look in because we had rented his lodge for the week.

I never knew what they looked like, now I do, the farmer has to be commended for his attitude to predator birds. Nice shots as well, I don't think there are any of those birds around here, but I could be wrong.

[susie123]

Originally Posted by kestrelx

Good pics of the buzzards etc - red kites have now been released in Grizedale - Lake District and I'd think they have a feeding station up there as well.

Kes - your avatar -it's fading away... hope you're not!!

[davemac]

Today in Pictures. A quick walk, but just as dirty as a long walk.

1. Sun on my face, but mud on my flip flops.
2. Its a Split Porecrust fungi, but I think it sounds like a pie, I would eat one.
3. The leaves are starting to fall.
4. Came across two Pine tree stumps and these were feeding off the dead roots, Sulphur Tuft fungi.
5. Stood back for a better look.
6. Looking from inside the wood to the outside, this area was pine and Larch trees.
7. This is one of those fungi that are bursting out all over the place at the moment, Jelly Ear. Or it could be the arm of an Octopus, perhaps not.
8. This one is so small its almost microscopic, its a good job I had my Fungi Detector switched on.
9. I think this is a slime mould, it appears to be oozing out from under the bark.
10. Last shot before heading back to the car, and then shopping , whoopee.

Must put on my shopping list, some batteries for my fungal detector, it has gone off that many times this week the batteries are flat.

[susie123]

Originally Posted by davemac

Must put on my shopping list, some batteries for my fungal detector, it has gone off that many times this week the batteries are flat.

Did you find any fun gals?? I'm offering... or you could try these...

FunGals - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[kestrelx]

Originally Posted by davemac

Today in Pictures. A quick walk, but just as dirty as a long walk.

You love your funghi Which woods where you in?

[davemac]

Originally Posted by susie123

Did you find any fun gals?? I'm offering... or you could try these...

FunGals - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The places I go are so muddy, steep, wet, remote, smelly, that I am usually a man outstanding in his field, or river or mud or manure. plus there is not mushroom for visitors.
You also have to be a good SPOREt, thats all I got on that subject.

[davemac]

Originally Posted by kestrelx

You love your funghi Which woods where you in?

I think they love me, they shout out were they are, the woods in question are to the rear of Wilsons Playing Field, Clayton-le-Moors. and go through to Bell Lane in Altham, which is just short of St Mary's burial ground.

[kestrelx]

Originally Posted by susie123

Kes - your avatar -it's fading away... hope you're not!!

Is this any better?