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    curlews and wood blewits

    Blewits are about from early Oct til well into Dec but I've seen agaricus ( field,horse ect) as early as Aug. Not sure if St Georges mushrooms (late Apr-May) have maggots. Cowpats to mushroom caps sounds like the logical leap. Just interested in whether this particular behavioral meme was wide...
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    curlews and wood blewits

    Guess thats a no or don't know. no?
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    A cordiality of gulls and crows (a new collective noun)

    The fact that they seem to be getting on fine after you left shows how adaptable they are. I read recently that they recognise individual human faces & will watch to see where your looking by following your line of sight. I do like to stop & stare at one, instantly causing them to behave...
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    A cordiality of gulls and crows (a new collective noun)

    I've long been interested in the intelligence of corvids, often taking time out to watch them watching you watching them and all that. Highlights include watching a posse of 20 odd choughs comming in to roost in an open sided barn. 3 or 4 birds then proceeded to indulge in some sort of acrobatic...
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    curlews and wood blewits

    Has anyone else seen eurasian curlew or any other wader or bird even, feed on the maggots in wood blewits? Or any other pastoral fungi for that matter? For a couple of seasons I'd noticed curious holes in the caps of mature w blewits at a site on the N.E. coast of Scotland. Then a couple of...
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