tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278510471239667560.post2937263227732870978..comments2024-03-28T20:29:39.377+00:00Comments on Kensington Gardens and Hyde Park birds: Ralph Hancockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11686354797977020917noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278510471239667560.post-41264005779440226172015-08-03T19:49:33.571+01:002015-08-03T19:49:33.571+01:00Many thanks. Hope I get to it tomorrow before it&#...Many thanks. Hope I get to it tomorrow before it's destroyed.Ralph Hancockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11686354797977020917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278510471239667560.post-2787097539846163002015-08-03T19:23:10.536+01:002015-08-03T19:23:10.536+01:00Yesterday I found an interesting mushroom in Kensi...Yesterday I found an interesting mushroom in Kensington Gardens, the relatively rare Silky Rosegill (Volvariella bombycina). As the Latin name implies, it "hatches" from an egg like structure. You can see four or five eggs at different stages of hatching in the rotten trunk of a horse chestnut tree east of the Italian fountains (the eggs are the size of a swan egg). If you want to take a photo, here are the directions:<br />Start on the path between Marlborough Gate and Westbourne Gate, with your back to Lancaster gate Station . You will have the Italian fountains on your right, and the children playing area on your left. In between there is a spiral shaped mound, few meters across, for children to play. Around this mound there is a semicircle of horse chestnut trees. The mushrooms are on the east horse chestnut, the one nearer the children playground, not far from a rowan full of red berries. (I think that if you want to take a photo you will have to do it soon, as the children are bound to find it and spoil it)<br />MarioAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278510471239667560.post-813357171255369142015-08-03T00:58:34.395+01:002015-08-03T00:58:34.395+01:00It had only put on the black cap to pass sentence ...It had only put on the black cap to pass sentence on some insects.Ralph Hancockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11686354797977020917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278510471239667560.post-45130282649421227332015-08-03T00:38:53.415+01:002015-08-03T00:38:53.415+01:00Love the reed warbler/blackcap cross! ;-) Jim n.L....Love the reed warbler/blackcap cross! ;-) Jim n.L.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com