A Walk through Burton Bushes
This morning I took a short walk around Burton Bushes, a small area of semi-natural ancient woodland on Beverley’s Westwood Common. It isn’t a particularly rich area in terms of birdlife or ground flora, although there is a little of each characteristic of woodlands with the best bird being Marsh Tit which breeds there.
Today however, all I saw were crowds of Blue Tits and Long-tailed Tits, a few Great Tits and a couple of Robins, Blackbirds, a Magpie and a couple of Redwings. Rather too many Grey Squirrels than is healthy for such a small patch of woodland were busy collecting food, but the most interesting things were the fungi growing on lumps of dead and dying wood.
Unfortunately I didn’t see any of the nice big colourful fungi but I did get some reasonable photos of a variety of wierd ones. With the poor light it was a bit tricky to get good photos with just a compact camera and out of 60 shots taken I only got 11 acceptable pictures, some of which are a little blurrier than I would have hoped for.
I haven’t a clue what any of these species are, so if anyone knows their identity, please let me know.
