Visibility improving in River Lark (10.6°C) at #BartonMills, but lake-like silty stretch downstream of A11 seems fishless. In contrast, tunnel it zooms thro' under A11 packed with big (30cm) Chub! Also Roach & oxygen-junky Minnows in breeding condition. #Chalkstreams #Suffolk 2/5

Although a cold day & Cut-off Channel (11.7°C) lacking fish, wonderful as ever to be in the water, the mounds of blackthorn blossom mirroring the clouds, the gorse in bloom, and a pair of Mute Swans on patrol.
#BartonMills #WestSuffolk #Brecks #Breckland
4/6

Brown-lipped Snail (Cepea nemoralis), coppiced Hazel and Scots Pines in Breckland sunset at Warren Hill.

#BartonMills #WestSuffolk #Brecks #Breckland #TheBrecks #Heaths #Fungi #sunset

9/9

More unidentified fungi on Warren Hill on which help with identification would be appreciated.

#BartonMills #WestSuffolk #Brecks #Breckland #TheBrecks #Heaths #Fungi

8/9

Three species of fungi with decurrent gills on Warren Hill. Help with identification would be welcome!

#BartonMills #WestSuffolk #Brecks #Breckland #TheBrecks #Heaths #Fungi

7/9

A selection of coprophilous fungi at Warren Hill - Dung Roundhead (Stopharia semiglobata), but what are the other 3?

#BartonMills #WestSuffolk #Brecks #Breckland #TheBrecks #Heaths #Fungi

6/9

Meadow Waxcap (Hygrocybe pratensis)?, Snowy Waxcap (Hygrocybe virginea)?, Mucilago crustacea slime mould & could that be the stalk of a Meadow Puffball? at Warren Hill.

#BartonMills #WestSuffolk #Brecks #Breckland #TheBrecks #Heaths #Fungi

5/9

Four species of puffball on Warren Hill: Meadow (Lycoperdon pratense), Grassland (L. lividum), Mosaic (L. utriforme) and Pestle (L. excipuliforme).

#BartonMills #WestSuffolk #Brecks #Breckland #TheBrecks #Heaths #Fungi #puffballs

4/9

Thrilled to find my first Earthtongues (Geoglossum cookeanum) & Golden Spindles (Clavulinopsis fusiformis)? as well as plenty of Meadow Coral (Clavulinopsis corniculata) at Warren Hill.

#BartonMills #WestSuffolk #Brecks #Breckland #TheBrecks #Heaths #Fungi #earthtongues

3/9

Breckland sun on Sunday on the birches at Warren Hill.

"And the running of the deer..."

...some Fallows while I was looking at this ?Cinnamon Bracket (Hapalopilus nidulans)? on an Oak...

#MyWalk #BartonMills #WestSuffolk #Brecks #Breckland #TheBrecks #Heaths #Fungi

1/9

In the River Lark at Barton Mills there are some good size Chub. Quite a few Perch. Plenty of Gudgeon. On the river bed, Swan Mussels and Ramshorn Snails. Quite a shaded stretch of river.

#Chalkstreams #BartonMills #Brecks #WestSuffolk #Perch #Gudgeon #freshwaterfish

2/2

Thrilled to see an Eel in the #RiverLark at Barton Mills just downstream of the A11. Only got a record shot of its tail as it disappeared under a log. Three small & one medium size Pike were more obliging.

#MySwim #BartonMills #ChalkStreams #WestSuffolk @Britnatureguide

1/2

SWALLOWS! on a blue sky summery day & apple blossom & Ground Ivy (Glechoma hederacea) carpeting - a herald of Bluebells & Rue-leaved saxifrage (Saxifraga tridactylites) a dainty special treat on Cherry Hill headlands. #MyWalk #FromHome #DailyExercise #BartonMills @Britnatureguide