2005 - Whitby Naturalists

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THE FUNGI RECORDER'S REPORT As the Recorders Reports are always written in October' there ate often specie, of fr,,gi telating to late autumn which are not included' 'Worth a mention t; il" '"tpo"' I feef is the n*9'hv:l Deceiver {Laccaria urnethystea)Lu'-'d in Dalby Forest late in October 2004' whilst I was researchlng a waik for whitby Naturalists the following sulnmel' Itiscertainlyaclistinctlvecolour'darklilac'butnotaseasytoseein the leaf littcr as you might think' Apparently it is edrble but lacks {lavour, but who realiy would want to *"i" p"'p1"-coloured mushroom! Aiso present' during'that walk' was the Common Ink Cap {coprinus {Ififfinentdrius), which clcspite its name' is not so common as the Shaggy i.,t C"p, the one which looks like a judge's wig' Lateautumn/winterprcsentedsome"smaliandweird"ftrngi'suchas Coral Spot (necrri a 'tnnabar*a) on twigs in my composlhean which rverehastihtransferrecltothedustbin'IrnightaddlCandlesnuff fungus txylarknypoxyfonl was f
It is not crften possible to meet up with organisations like the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union when you have to use public transpoft but, in June, I rvas al-.ic to spend a whole day lvith them, as the mceting point was Sandsend. I can thoroughly recommend a day in their company as, around tea-time in Sandsend village hall, the relevant recorders gavc iists of, and sometimcs showed spccimens oi what had been found that day. A couple, increditrly kr-rowicdgeable about fungi, innoduced me to wh:rt were then unknown to me, narnely rusts, rnoulds and smuts, a world w'here thc microscopc is indispensatrle, and to which they were taking their specirnens home with thcm. June not being a good time cf vear for fungi was a good timc to study these rather lesser-known types. The aftcrnoon was spent with the botanists and that was equally fascinatfurg. My new-found knowlcdge rvas put into practice whilst walking out my Naturalists' walk to Ellerburn Banks a week before the actual outing. Going past a field of wheat on the track down to Eilerburn Church, some of the heads of the wheat appeared to havc tiny, sooty-looking growths on them. I am almost sure this wzrs Ergot (clunticeps purpureu). I had heard of this bcfore in contaminated flour; I did not know it srew on the living seed head of the wheat. On one of \Uhitby Naturalists' summer walks, I was given :n excellent photograph of Dryad's saddle (polyporus squunosus) by Sue and Richard Evans. These are very large brackct fungi growing out cf thc trr.rnks of living trees. In mid-August, a friend asked me to come ancl look at a "mushroom" under thc hedge in hcr garden in Kingfisher Drive. It was one I l-rad not seen before (nothing umrsual in that) called Parasol mushroom (microlepiota procera). Having sccn one, o{ course qrrite a few more "[urned up" during the summer. On another Naturaiists' walk which included the village of Newton Mulg'r'ave, a certain field could have fed us all as it held quite a number of varyinglyshaped Giant Putfballs (Langennannia" gigmrtea). These are cdible whilst young and white inside. Later, like all the puffballs, they dry, turn brown, split and the spores (the puff) escapc.
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President Vice President Chairman V
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THE CHAIRMAN'S REPORT I find it ver
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The Annual Report relies on the rec
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Page 11 and 12: SUMMER PROGRAMME 2OO5 Malr /'h Full
Page 13 and 14: THE COACH ORGANISER'S REPORT The su
Page 15 and 16: we could see out to sea, whcrc some
Page 17 and 18: WHITBY NATURALISTS' CLUB INCOME ACC
Page 19 and 20: THE TREASURERS REPORT As rhis is my
Page 21 and 22: undisturbed or unridy parts of the
Page 23 and 24: GENERAL INFORMATION ON AMPHIBIA' On
Page 25 and 26: In late August during an evening of
Page 27 and 28: THE GEOLOGICAL RECORDER'S REPORT No
Page 29 and 30: Preparations for a successful relca
Page 31 and 32: FIELD VOIE (Microtus dgresris) one
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Page 39 and 40: THE BOTANICAL RECORDER'S REPORT Spr
Page 41 and 42: ENTOMOLOGY RECORDER'S REPORT This y
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Page 45 and 46: BEETLES Early this year I had a few
Page 47 and 48: from June 5.h some slimy black larv
Page 49 and 50: ARCHAEOLOGICAL RECORDERS R'EPORT So
Page 51 and 52: o l8th May, Bullfinches at Upper Es
Page 53 and 54: Nightjar Our evening visit to Harwo
Page 55 and 56: magically calmed the weather and th
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