Charmouth 1st August

I spent the morning near Charmouth looking for some local specialities namely Slender Centaury, Cliff Tiger Beetle and Sea Heath. To my delight I managed to find all three and some additions too. Being a beginner I found the Centaury group a little tricky to get the hand of but pointers that helped included looking for the presence of a basal rosette, whether the branches along the whole stem or just the top half and the leaf shape.

Lesser Centaury

Sea Heath

Slender Centaury

Asaphidion pallipes

Cliff Tiger Beetle

Stagonospora atriplicis

Fungus finds 29th May

I've got round to ID'ing some fungus from recent days. One was Brittle Cinder on some dead wood washed up on the shoreline and  the other Fairies Bonnets found under a tree line along the north edge of the car park.

Brittle Cinder Kretzschmaria deusta

Fairies Bonnets Coprinellus disseminates