Toadstools and dragonflies

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The toadstools are really coming into season now – there’s a wide variety of shapes and sizes down Ned’s Lane. Further on, as we approach Round Hill, I remember the dragonfly that posed for us here a week or so ago. Today there are two of them, both posing obligingly (a brown hawker and a southern hawker – I think…). Elsewhere a red admiral basks in the sunshine. It may be autumn meteorologically, but astronomically it’s still summer…

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Chestnut Coppice and the riverbank

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There are toadstools galore in the woods! Later, stopping to gaze upon the river, there’s a flash of blue as a kingfisher flies to a bush on the opposite bank. Perhaps if we wait he’ll re-emerge? Yes – to fly away downstream and out of sight. Sometimes it’s the briefest of moments that make the day special.

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Fruitfulness

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They’re not all edible, and I certainly wouldn’t want to experiment, but there are fruits of all kinds in the hedgerows today. As well as those illustrated, there are plenty of blackberries, and here and there some sweet damsons. No-one would want to eat the wild hops, but rub a flower between the fingers and the aroma is wonderful!