Guided Walks

Upcoming Walks...

Mushroom and Toadstool Walks 2022:

Sat 8 October
1pm - 3pm
Swithland Wood SSSI
Meet LE128TN
Contact Bradgate Park to book for a UK Fungus weekend event

Sat 15 October
2pm - 4pm
Bradley Wood, Ashbourne
Meet layby Belper Rd A517

Sun 16 October
10am - 12pm
Morley Hayes Ancient Wood
Meet Commoners Lott

21-23 October
Fungus weekend @ Middleton Top

Sat 29 October
10am - 12pm
Chaddesden Wood LNR Derby
Meet Springwood Drive

Sat 29 October
2pm - 4pm
Hilton Gravel Pits
Meet Aston Lane

Sun 30 October
10am - 12pm
Pleasley Pit
Meet at the Bird Café

Sat 5 November
1pm - 3pm
Swadlincote Woods
Meet DE118LP
Book 01283 228766

Sun 6 November
10am - 12pm
Scalpcliffe Woods BoT

Sun 6 November
1.30pm - 4pm
Oakthorpe Colliery and Willersley Wood

Contact Me!
I am taking bookings for next year:
Either for flora in early summer or fungi in the autumn.
All walks lead to the recording of our finds on a local and national level.

October 2020

November 2019

October 2019

Saturday 5 October 10-12
Meet near the Café Beacon Park with Staffs Wildlife Trust

Sunday 6 October
UK Fungus Day 1.30 Markeaton Park (meet point in main car park)

Saturday and Sunday 12/13 October
Fungi Training: book with Derbyshire Wildlife Trust for a one day field work and ID session

Sunday 20 October 10-12
walk from Pleasley Pit café with the bird group

Sunday 20 October 1.30-3.30
Kedleston Park, book with the National Trust

Wednesday 23 October 10.30-12.30
Kedleston Hall: book with National Trust

Sunday 27 October
@ Darley and Nutwood LNR Derby 10-12, meet @ the memorial
gardens in Darley Abbey and park nearby.

Sunday 27 October
hill walking across Crich Chase 1.30-4pm : meet at the train station parking in Ambergate

May 2019

I thank everyone who came on walks this year for the fun-gi’s and fabulous discoveries we made. Key species found were Jack ‘o’ Lantern Omphlotus illudens in Lichfield, the tiny Red leg Club Typhula erythropus at Black Rocks, and Yellow Leg Club Typhula lutescens at Pleasley Pit. Exciting was the Plain Earth Tongue Geoglossum umbratile, The first siting at Crich Chase, a Derbyshire SSSI that includes its grassland fungi in citation. So Entertained BBC Radio Derby with Amethyst Deceiver Laccaria amethysta by torchlight and BBC Radio Nottingham with a Wood Blewit Lepista nuda omelette between bread and butter!

Last week I had the rare Date Waxcap Hygrocybe spadicea at Darley and Nutwood LNR and the colourful Herald of Winter Hygrophorus hypothejus at Kedleston. Thank you

Following the care and release of a swift in the summer, I am currently looking after hedgehogs small and injured

Past Walks...

October 2018

16 September 2018
Lark In the Park meet at Arboretum Park Derby 12-4pm to meet my Bran Owls and dip the pond with Derby City Pond Warden Association

04 October 2018
Part of UK Fungus Day: meet at Chaddesden Wood Springwood Drive, Derby 17.00-19.00 for a walk, find and identify

06 October 2018
UK Fungus Day go to BMS web site to find a walk and talk

13 October 2018
Introduction to Fungus course contact Derbyshire Wildlife Trust.

20 October 2018
Introduction to Fungus Course and learn how to find and identify all types of fungi. Mushrooms and toadstools Staffordshire. Contact joy.peace@southstaffs.ac.uk

21 October 2018
Pleasley Pit Bird Group Fungus foray @10am. Derbyshire.

Thursday 25 October 2018 7pm
Barn Owls talk and hold/photograph. Go to Pleasley Pit Bird Group web site for more details.

27 and 28 October 2018 10-12.30 Fungus Foray at Kedleston Hall Derby. Contact the national trust to book.

November 2018

September 2018

September 2017

Saturday 2 September 2017
Lark in the Park Arboretum Derby 12-4 with my Barn Owls, Dotty & Barny.

Saturday 9 September 2017
Stanton Road Cemetary Ilkeston 1-3pmwith my Barn Owls.

Friday 15 September 2017 (7.30)
Talk and handling, Barn Owls in Derbyshire for Appletree Hundred
Group Allestree Derbyshire.

Sunday 24 September 2017
Fungus Foray Pleasley Pit Bird Group from 10am

Saturday 30 September 2017
Fungus Foray Friends of Carr Wood, Ripley 10.30am

October 2017

Thursday 5 October 2017 (4-7pm)
Fungus Workshop @ Chaddesden Wood, Oakwood Derby with Sinfin LNR Group. Meet at Springwood Drive entrance.

Saturday 7 October 2017
Fungus Foray Shinning Cliff Woods SSSI with Griff Pioneers

Sunday 8 October 2017
Fungus Foray Markeaton Park 10am, meet at the main car park.

Sunday 8 October 2017
Fungus Foray Shipley Country Park 2pm. Meet at the Visitor Centre.

Wednesday 11 October 2017
Fungus Foray at Riddings Community Centre 7.30pm

Saturday 14 October 2017
Fungus Workshop at Middleton. Contact Derbyshire Wildlife Trust to book.

Sunday 15 October 2017
George Hayes Reserve Fungus Foray for the Staffordshire Wildlife Trust. 10am.

Sunday 15 October 2017
Sinfin Watch Group. Fungus Foray for children. Meet at Sinfin Moor Park.

Saturday 21and 29 October 2017
Crich Chase Fungus Foray. Contact Derbyshire Wildlife Trust to book.

Sunday 22 October 2017
Fungus Foray 10am Darley and Nutwood LNR, Derby. Meet at the memorial gardens, Darley.

Guided walks