A day's visit to Nagshead the RSPB Nature Reserve.

Very nice and rugged.You did well to snap the Kingfisher. I have never seen one in the flesh.
We also went out today and saw a building with a sedum green roof(at a bowling club in a park in Southend) .

that's a lovely day out. Saw kingfishers a couple of years ago at Potterick Carr near Doncaster.

weather is now duff here. heavy-ish rain and cooler than it should be in June.

What an interesting place :)

Great photos too, especially the bracket fungus and the kingfisher and the flag. A grand walk!

A lovely natural walk, and to view a Kingfisher who are such shy birds you did well....

What a lovely place for a walk, just goes to show that there are still some wild and natural places left for the wildlife. Lucky you having the Kingfisher posing for you, it's usually just a flash of blue and gone!

That's not the name of a particular fungus Meadowland - it applies to all the ones that shape that grow on trees etc.

Just had a hunt through a mushroom book and found only two remotely like it so won't venture on suggesting what it is except that its very pretty!

Lovely place . . . my OH used to work at Mitcheldean. Whenever I think of the Forest of Dean, I think of the day I saw the playwright Dennis Potter in a café there - Cinderford possibly :)

Great blog Julia.

Yes - I'm fairly sure it was his home territory, and in fact one of his plays for TV was set there (obvs can't remember which one!).

Not sure Julia. All I can remember is a boy sitting in a tree . . . !