Chagford – Deer Park – Whiddon Woods – Fingle Bridge
Lots of honey mushrooms, a pied smudge moth (whose shoulder markings are supposed to resemble the head of a rabbit), trembling crust (whose upper surface is “white to pale yellow in colour, can be dry to moist, and hairy to woolly; the margin is usually white to translucent” which seems remarkably vague), xylaria and a lovely birch polypore. The fly agarics and boletes are nearly over now. We were watched by a curious fallow deer for a while and the pond-skaters were less agitated than normal so are less blurry than usual. Taking photos of leaves on dark water is always much harder than I expect. The robin hopped on and off my table as I ate a (very good) bowl of chips at the FB Inn.
