Reading & District Natural History Society

The Society’s annual fungus foray was held in Nettlebed Woods on Sunday 15th November. The walk started from Highmoor Trench in warm sunshine, with the autumn colours looking superb in the beech woods. Recent mild weather and heavy rain had led to a bumper crop of fungi. Leader Gordon Crutchfield was kept very busy, identifying [...]

Seventeen members, led by Ken Thomas, met at The Red Lion in Upper Basildon and, after a visit to a very beautiful and interesting modern church, walked through suburban and country lanes past Blandy’s Farm and through Harley Hill Wood down to Hood End Farm, then up the lane and around Rushdown and back to [...]