Fungi Spotting At Shouldham Warren [Original Content]

We are blessed that we live only a 15-minute walk from a really large woodland area called Shouldham Warren. The family went for a 3 hour wander around this morning and of course, I took the camera with me. Some absolutely lovely fungi there, especially the fly agarics which are in various stages of growth. Absolutely love these mushrooms and have been wanting to photograph them for years. Also, plenty of lichens, moss and other stuff to look at and play around. Our daughter loves it; she even took my little compact camera and got a few cracking shots of her own. A young photographer in the making I hope. Here are the images I captured this morning.

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Fly Agarics

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Fly Agaric Cap

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Downed silver birch. Loved the high contrast against the dark background in this one

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Yellow lichens or fungi of some kind

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Some of the more common shrooms that we found on the walk.

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More common shrooms

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Maybe some kind of bracket fungi

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Small fly agaric

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Some amazing green lichens. I love how this shot came out.

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Very cool but I dont know what type of mushroom this is

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Fly agaric

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Fly agaric

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Fly agaric

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My young photographer and super helper.

One related fact about the warren is that there is currently a silica quarrying company looking to basically flatten the whole lot so that they can quarry out silica sand for the next 20 years. You can imagine the local outrage at this. I can't bear the thought that my daughter might grow up without this woodland on our doorstep, especially with the current environmental requirement for large carbon sinks and the re-planting of woodlands that is going on worldwide in an attempt to reduce carbon in the atmosphere.

There's more information on this site

https://www.norfolkcatss.co.uk/

Hope you enjoyed the images.

Thanks for looking

Mark



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Every picture is awesome, but I must agree that one with the green turned out great! We also went to the woods today, at least it was planned, eventually we only saw woods and never walked in them as we noticed our daughter was already super tired from the hours in the tram/train towards a stop :) Next time a short cut and actually enter the woods to look for mushrooms ...

Btw it's sad how they are cutting down green areas, it's the same here btw.. I recently heard that because of a cooperation between the Hungarian government and X (company?) they are going to tear down a huge park. One that's actually really green and nice for families.. which we don't have many of on this side of the danube.. It's all green in Buda but Pest not so.. so that's pretty sad...

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Thanks for commenting. I can't see how the silica company can justify what they are doing. They say that no-one uses the warren so it won't be a loss. When we went this morning we must have seen 50 cars in the car park, so more than likely over 100 people in there as well as a LOT of dogs. Really boils my piss that they are even thinking about destroying one of the areas most wonderful wildlife areas so that they can get hold of some sand.

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Unfortunately, it's probably all about the money :( So sad, but true..
And if they are mentioning enough times to enough people: "Nobody is using the area anyway" it's most-likely that a percentage of these people will believe it right away, and another part of them will after a while. Super sad, but I think this happens a lot.

The park here in Budapest is also always super super crowded as it's located next to one of the biggest squares (I went to a free Bryan Adams concert there just weeks ago) which is located in between a few museums, the zoo and one of the biggest thermal baths also in winter you have the ice skating area.. it's filled with tourists so in this case it would not make sense either, but I've heard here the reason is so dumb that you can't believe a government would make a decision like that (unfortunately I forgot the reason sorry haha, just believe me when I say I was flabbergasted) .. We don't have much green on this side of Budapest, and today we spend hours on the Buda (hills) side and only breathing that nature air has done us all good, can't believe they'd just take away one of the green areas for a stupid reason.

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I enjoyed all of the pics very much, and your little helper's one is was the most precious!!

ps. the yellow something you mentioned is definitely fungi, not lichen.
let me ivite you yo use the #fungifriday and #mushroomonday challenge tags?

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Thanks for the mention of fungifriday. I actually started that tag about 2 years ago ;)

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oooo?! ehehe... :=)

isnt it @ewkaw who started it?.. or she just run it into the masses? 2 yrs after, and it is still alive, and fruitful :)))

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No, Mark did it :)
I took over the challenge after.

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hehe. this really came out like rounds from a stone thrown to the pond!

=)

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Didn't know mushrooms could look so amazing. You captured some great shots here. Do you do some after effects? I am new-ish to photography. What cam are you using by the way, didn't see it in the post. I hope they stay away from the woods and leave nature to be. Nature is so vital to our well being.

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Hi, thanks for dropping by my blog

I'm using the Canon 90D and a combination of lenses but mostly the Sigma 105 DG HSM macro and the Canon 24-105L in these shots. The one of my daughter was taken with the Canon 100-400L.

I do a log of postprocessing but it's all manually done for each image depending on what the image is and what effect I want. I do all of that in Adobe Lightroom Classic.

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Love all the fungal variety on display here! Man I hope they don't clear the woodlands, such a bummer when stuff like that happens for a short term profit. If we properly valued the remaining green spaces we have they are actually worth approximately one gajillion times more than the value of resources that could be extracted from them.

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