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Jan 24, 2025

December Wildlife Report

Wild Wednesdays may have stopped for the winter but nature hasn’t. Some of our log piles are coming into their own now they have been lying for several years and are supporting an array different types of fungi: tiny bonnet mushrooms, large and small bracket fungi and the weird antler-like clubs of candlesnuff.

 

The mulch we use on our beds also supports its own array of species including cup-fungi.

Meanwhile, one of our hazel fence panels has finally succumbed, after years of service, to the stunning cobalt crust.

Star of the autumn however, was something very different, a slime mould. Apparently they can move!

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