Reading & District Natural History Society

Eleven members met at the Blade Bone and walked through Ironmongers Copse, Withy Copse and Greyfield Wood. In some years this area has been so rich in fungi that a walk got no further but this year there were few fungi to be seen. The [...]

Members gathered in the churchyard of St Peter and St Paul, Shiplake, Oxfordshire on Saturday 17th October 2009 to look at lichens.  Leader James Wearn began the afternoon by explaining the reasons for choosing the site.  It had been more than thirty years since a lichen walk had been led in the churchyard, the last [...]