Fernworthy Forest
Weird goings on in one of the more remote bits of the forest. They’re filming something and are very cloak and dagger about what it is / whether they’re there at all etc. (It must be hard to be secretive/invisible when you’re building scaffolding steps – presumably for the sheep to climb into the forest? – and driving 15 pickups up the track, parking two VIP coaches next to the barn etc. etc.). I hope they don’t trash a very lovely decaying, abandoned, boggy bit of forest.
In fungal news – and with very wide error bars – yellow stagshorn, ivory bonnet, the sickener, tawny grisette, earthball, parasitic bolete. Also, a cross orbweaver, spruce carpet moth, yellow-barred peat hoverfly, peacock, green-veined white, common darter, common hawker, devil’s bit scabious. (Alphabetically speaking, obviously, C is for parasitic bolete).
The highlight, apart from falling over dramatically when distracted by a common blue butterfly, was finding a strange corrugated plastic orange wheel with a white fixing. It could be something military which has drifted across from the range but I’m more inclined to think it’s some sort of insect surveying equipment – pheromone trap? Watching the orbweaver winch up the fly was fairly compelling. The blue eyes on the cranefly were unexpectedly piercing.
