The
Lowestoft Field Club
Excursion to
Iken Near Snape
Suffolk UK
Sunday 9th February 2003.
TM 4056.
12 members met in the large car park (full of Mole hills) at Iken Cliffs at 10am in constant drizzle, which continued all day. Although mild there was a cooling southerly wind.
In the morning the group walked as far as St Bolotoph’s church. The birdwatchers were able to scan the south- eastern end of the Alde estuary & were rewarded with a fine flock of over one hundred feeding Avocets. Many hundreds of Gulls were noted which were mixed Black headed & Common Gulls. A few Widgeon, Redshank, Shelduck & cormorants were seen along with one or two Curlew.
Flowering plants were very scarce but a fine number of Snowdrops & Winter Aconites were seen in flower along the lane leading to the church. A small Pine stump in the churchyard yielded two species of bracket Fungus namely Bjerkandra adjusta & Trametes verisicolor
Returning along the road the botanists recorded Cherry Plum, Shepherds Purse & Common Field Speedwell. The latter two plants are perpetual flowerers.
Interestingly although we passed by some dwellings, no Common Daisies were recorded in flower. The mycologists present found both Peniophora lycii & P. incarnata on Gorse & on another nearby the Candle Snuff Fungus Xylaria hypoxylon. Most notable by it’s absecence in this area was Velvet Shank Flammulina velutipes & Tramates mesentrica The former is abundant in some parishes this year & the latter is often found on Gorse of which we passed many today.
After a packed lunch back at the car only Neil Mahler our guest & myself visited Tunstall Forest (TM 3856) leaving the others to go home.
Here we recorded only Gorse in flower, but more than made up for it in fungi records.
Most notable was Crepidotus variablis on twigs in the leaf litter & Pholiota carbonaria on burnt ground.
A full list of all fungi recorded is on my web site
http://www.ickenham.fsworld.co.uk/index.htm
Colin A Jacobs.
Lowestoft Field Club
Excursion to
Iken Near Snape
Suffolk UK
Sunday 9th February 2003.
TM 4056.
12 members met in the large car park (full of Mole hills) at Iken Cliffs at 10am in constant drizzle, which continued all day. Although mild there was a cooling southerly wind.
In the morning the group walked as far as St Bolotoph’s church. The birdwatchers were able to scan the south- eastern end of the Alde estuary & were rewarded with a fine flock of over one hundred feeding Avocets. Many hundreds of Gulls were noted which were mixed Black headed & Common Gulls. A few Widgeon, Redshank, Shelduck & cormorants were seen along with one or two Curlew.
Flowering plants were very scarce but a fine number of Snowdrops & Winter Aconites were seen in flower along the lane leading to the church. A small Pine stump in the churchyard yielded two species of bracket Fungus namely Bjerkandra adjusta & Trametes verisicolor
Returning along the road the botanists recorded Cherry Plum, Shepherds Purse & Common Field Speedwell. The latter two plants are perpetual flowerers.
Interestingly although we passed by some dwellings, no Common Daisies were recorded in flower. The mycologists present found both Peniophora lycii & P. incarnata on Gorse & on another nearby the Candle Snuff Fungus Xylaria hypoxylon. Most notable by it’s absecence in this area was Velvet Shank Flammulina velutipes & Tramates mesentrica The former is abundant in some parishes this year & the latter is often found on Gorse of which we passed many today.
After a packed lunch back at the car only Neil Mahler our guest & myself visited Tunstall Forest (TM 3856) leaving the others to go home.
Here we recorded only Gorse in flower, but more than made up for it in fungi records.
Most notable was Crepidotus variablis on twigs in the leaf litter & Pholiota carbonaria on burnt ground.
A full list of all fungi recorded is on my web site
http://www.ickenham.fsworld.co.uk/index.htm
Colin A Jacobs.
