fungi:
dyers mazegill, crepidotus applanatus, artists bracket, inocybe flocculosa, psathyrella candoleana, collybia peronata, dog stinkhorn, root fomes, common puffball


globe artichoke, musk mallow, bistort, black mustard, cornsalad

and various ferns at KM. will post the names when theyre IDed

thanks neil - will try to get up there soon!

I recently found a patch of parrot toadstools on a small grassy verge near my house (Clayton Le Woods) (in the recording area) and my book says that this mushroom is quite rare - so I thought it would be worth mentioning. For photos - jhewitt15.blogspot.com Also in my local woods: charcoal burner, d...

to get lots of ID on fungi - go on wildaboutbritain.co.uk

get an account and you can upload photos of fungi for lots of people to ID,

I use it a lot for fungi because I can't ID fungi on my own

Boletus radicans up near the Pines hotel

Orange moss agaric and brown roll rim at the Lord nelson

and a migrant hawker seen and photographed in the ginnel near Westwood

wouldn't a fungi first dates section be a good idea because I don't really know when to look for fly agarics. I missed the good ones last year.

Its actually peter ross's arrowhead - he told me about it - but I'll take responsibility if you want

I can confirm those sightings - seen them myself

not a lot of birds

arrowhead was seen in the canal and corn mint next to the canal

Bryotropha domestica was in my room last night.

Peter ross has told me he has found arrowhead in the canal at Withnell Fold and corn mint on the scrapes.

I found a really green caterpillar as well but just in Clayton Brook at the Lord Nelson. I couldn't get a decent photo as I had to use my phone.

It has been IDed as poplar hawk moth.

flowers:
white form of knapweed, reedmace, silverweed, common figwort, broad leaved helleborine, monkshood, devilsbit scabious, white deadnettle, hedge bindweed,

butterflies:
speckled wood, meadow browns


ALSO:
a small white in my kitchen today

flowers:
astrantia, fennel, balm, pellitory of the wall, sea purslane, starry saxifrage, navelwort, common cow wheat, harebell, bracken, birds foot trefoil, dwarf gorse, gorse, clubmoss, wall lettuce, great lettuce, goldenrod, foxglove

marbled arches moth

1 raven seen

a family member really think they have seen a white admiral on a wheel at Walkdens garage in Chorley.

I have shown them pictures of butteflies in Britain and also moths and they firmly believe it is the white admiral.

Have there been any records of a white admiral in Chorley?