Tag: Fungi

Fungi field visit at Wortley Hall

Wortley Hall parkland is the place for our fungi field visit on Saturday morning, 9th November. We are meeting at 10.00am. Leader Doug Brown

To park in the Wortley Hall grounds – follow the road in, turn right just before you get to the Hall and drive up and park on the right – Grid reference: SK31199953. ///witless.mingles.realm. Car-share if possible.

The grassland at Wortley Hall is particularly good for fungi. As well as fungi we will be looking at anything else we spot in these autumnal days.

Wortley Parkland: 14 October 2023

Wortley Hall parkland was the place for our field visit this Saturday morning, 14th October. With a total of 14 members from Barnsley Nats and Friends of Wortley Hall Gardens, the weather was typical for Autumn with blue skies and sunshine with a north westerly wind making to feel cold in the shade, at eight degrees!

We did a circuit of the gardens, admired the ancient oak tree and the fossilized tree stump, and found most of the fungi on the grass lawns.

This site appears locally important for fungi and deserves further visits.

Field visit to an icy Elsecar

We had a great frosty time on Saturday 10th December viewing the birds in the open water left free of ice on Elsecar reservoir with more Great Crested Grebes than usual. And a Water Rail spotted briefly coming out on the ice.

We started by going into the woods near Elsecar Heritage Centre to immediately hear and see a Great Spotted Woodpecker.

Spotting the remaining fungi as well: including Oyster mushroom(Pleuratu ostreatus), Sulphur Tuft(Hypholoma fasciculare) and Willow Bracket(Phellinus igniarius).

Then retiring to the Milton Arms or the Teepot Cafe.

Visit to Anglers Country Park

On Saturday 12th November we have a field visit to Anglers Country Park for the birds of open water and scrub; looking for fungi as well. We will start with the hide(s) and go on round the water and possibly into some woodland areas.

We are meeting at 10 am in the main car park at Anglers Country Park, Haw Park Lane, Wintersett, WF4 2EB, grid reference: SE375153.
Car parking free for 2 hours, £2 for 3 hours.

Fungi at Wortley, October 2020

Kent and Doug have recently enjoyed a visit to Wortley Hall parkland looking for fungi. Here are a few fungi they found: Clavulinopsis leuteo-alba, Clitocybe nebularis, Laccaria lacata, Stereum hirsutum with Hypnum cupressiforme, and Tricholoma terreum.

Have a look at their images and tell us their English names!