The foxgloves toll the days of the summer season, the bright flowers of today and the dead flowers of days passed, while the decreasing buds of days to come warn that the season is soon changing, with the early signs of the wildlife of autumn....
....appearing. This is the first we've seen of this year's fly agaric, pushing up through a dense cover of needles in a spruce plantation, though on the edge of the woodland, in a place where we've previously found masses of this species, there's....
....a single fungus already in stately bloom.
Autumn's outriders are the berries, with blueberries to be found in both the woods and on the open heath. This is a rowan, but not the native species, with smaller, closely-packed berries and larger, fewer leaves. It's growing in Golspie Glen so was probably planted at some stage by the Sutherland Estate.
The foxgloves toll the days of the summer season, the bright flowers of today and the dead flowers of days passed, while the decreasing buds of days to come warn that the season is soon changing, with the early signs of the wildlife of autumn.... 
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