Kingfisher tick!

It's been over eight years, but i've finally added kingfisher to my Lodge bird list! They are a very occasional bird here on the small pools as you'd imagine, but one has been popping onto the dead trunk at the old swimming pool at the HQ gardens, and I managed to go down and see it.

Katharine Hornsby kindly sent these pictures as she was there with me!

Plenty of redwing and goldcrest around at the moment and a lot of migrant blackbirds, so autumn is arriving. Still very little fungi to date though, but it's maybe getting a little wetter over the next week.so this should make a difference.