Year 4 had a brilliant time at West Stow this week, exploring what life was like in Anglo-Saxon Suffolk 🏺 The village dates back to AD 420—over 400 years before the Norman Conquest! #AngloSaxon #WestStow #HistoryInAction

Delighted to discover in The King's Forest, Weststow Long Plantation, row of ancient Beech (Fagus sylvatica) #trees along post-medieval boundary bank. Under one Beech was this deer-topiaried English Yew (Taxus baccata). On recently opened ride, this Turkey Oak (Quercus cerris). #thicktrunkthursday

On a bright, autumn afternoon @FullersMill, Water Chickweed (Myosoton aquaticum) in bloom on banks, while under stones in River Lark, freshwater sponges & #invasivealien Signal Crayfish lurk. #wildflowerhour #spongethursday #WestStow #Suffolk #Brecks #Breckland #sundayvibes 2/2

#Easter and #Summer #WestStow #AngloSaxon Village events coming up over the next few months www.weststow.org/whats-on/?ut...

More fungi I can't identify...any help appreciated. (I also have photos of their gills).

#FungiID #FungiFriday #FungusFriday #WestStow #WestSuffolk #Brecks #ID #Identification @wildlife_id @inaturalist #mushroomid

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Besides Wet Rot (Coniphora puteana)? a selection of #fungi I need help on identifying...

#FungiID #FungiFriday #FungusFriday #WestStow #WestSuffolk #Brecks #ID #Identification @wildlife_id @inaturalist #mushroomid

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Delighted to see my 1st Common Eyelash (Scutellina scutellate)! Also Skeletocutis carneogrisea associated with Purplepore Bracket (Trichaptum abietinum) & Skeletocutis amorpha. Lots of Yellow Brain (Tremella mesenterica) on gorse at Ramparts Field.
#WestStow #Brecks #Fungi
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Christmas Eve at West Stow, with the River Lark in spate, provided #NiceWeatherForDucks.

#Mallard #Mallards #RiverLark @WestStowNews #WestStow #WestSuffolk

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The River Lark in spate on Christmas Eve at West Stow (doing what it's meant to do in the alder carr), Icklingham & Cavenham Heath (doing it's thing on the flood plain): never seen it fuller.
#MyWalk #RiverLark #Chalkstreams #WestStow #Icklingham #CavenhamHeath #WestSuffolk
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Delightful to snorkel in Larkwood Lakes today - thanks Tony Whittingham.
An amazing 16.8°C!! But recent algal bloom meant visibility poor.
Tadpoles and fish fry.

#MySwim #WestStow #WestSuffolk 1/2

Masses of Minnows in Culford Stream, the occasional Stickleback and a few Rudd as well as Roach.

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Sublime swim in Culford Chalk Stream yesterday. Packed with fish (perhaps overspill from stocked Larkwood Lakes?). Lots Perch (including some looking quite red), Roach, Chub, Gudgeon & a Bullhead.

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Great to have the snorkelling company of Jude Allport's 15 yr old ace fish finding eyes - he found the Pike in Culford Stream. The water in Larkwood Lakes had cleared amazingly since Saturday - busy Daphnia? Good numbers of freshwater mussels in both stream & lake. #WestStow 2/2

Delighted to find White Saddle (Helvella crispa) in The Kings Forest at West Stow last weekend.

Here's a thread with some other fungi found there.
#MyWalk #WhiteSaddle #Helvellacrispa #elfinsaddle #mushrooms #fungi #fungus #FungusFriday #WestStow #KingsForest #WestSuffolk

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Wonder if this could be a teeny Liberty Cap (Psilocybe semilanceata)?
And Snapping Bonnet (Mycena vitilis) growing on a twig?
And Russet Toughshank (Collybia dryophila)?
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I wonder if this could be Amanita contui? Quite a lot of them at Ramparts Field, West Stow.
And could the 3 together be Butter Cap (Rhodocollybia butyracea var asema)?
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Here's the confluence of the Culford Stream (11.2°C) tributary with the River Lark (10.4°C) at @FullersMill. Would have expected the Lark to be warmer than Culford Stream, a more pure #chalkstream? #RiverLark #Chalkstreams #CulfordStream #WestStow #Suffolk #Brecks #Breckland 7/9

In River Lark upstream of Flempton, great swathes of this jelly like substance on rocks and vegetation. Assume Bryozoans? The only other aquatic live fauna I saw in c300m was this Annelid worm & Water Slater (Asellus aquaticus). #chalkstreams #suffolk #RiverLark #WestStow 3/3