We walked up to the Backies croft to buy some of their gorgeous big, brown eggs this morning but although the chickens looked healthy and were foraging as widely as always - there's a hen at bottom left in this picture - there weren't any eggs in the cupboard. This has been going on for some weeks now and we'd assumed it was because the hens were moulting but we're now wondering if too many other people have discovered these eggs.
The walk was a long one, just under five miles, but worth it for the fungi we found. This is one of two puffballs 'blooming' in the forestry - the dusky puffball - while....
....this was part of a group of honey fungi and....
....this may be an orange birch bolete - it was growing at the edge of a small silver birch wood.
The fungi we're finding are very much the same as those we discovered with such excitement last year. It's noticeable, however, that this year's are 'flowering' much later and in far smaller numbers. This may be because we had a fairly dry August and early September so, with the rain we've had recently, things may yet catch up.
We walked up to the Backies croft to buy some of their gorgeous big, brown eggs this morning but although the chickens looked healthy and were foraging as widely as always - there's a hen at bottom left in this picture - there weren't any eggs in the cupboard. This has been going on for some weeks now and we'd assumed it was because the hens were moulting but we're now wondering if too many other people have discovered these eggs.
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