We walked the beach at Littleferry again this morning, an absolute pleasure as the sun has finally emerged to give us some warmth, but there was little to see in the way of wildlife along the shore despite the low tide, while....
....the links that run behind the beach, separating it from the conifer woodland, were full of colour and interest.
We found common puffballs all along the paths, some of them almost the size of tennis balls, accompanied by....
....large numbers of these blackening waxcaps. We haven't seen many of them since 2019 so they've taken a couple of years rest. They start life in this brilliant yellow, change through orange to brown, and end their lives black.
As we returned to the plantation we found this fungus which I'm fairly sure is, for obvious reasons, the beautifully named plums and custard. Also in the woods, sitting on ling, we spotted....
....this small skipper and, by the shores of Loch Unes.....
....masses of damselflies and this female black darter.
We walked the beach at Littleferry again this morning, an absolute pleasure as the sun has finally emerged to give us some warmth, but there was little to see in the way of wildlife along the shore despite the low tide, while....
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