Normally I get over excited at this time of year and go on futile foraging expeditions for mushrooms…my normal companion Dean is very patient is doesn’t bother accompanying me this early in the year.
Anyway, today I had to drive through the New Forest, so I took the opportunity to have a quick scout around a new location I’d heard about.
I wasn’t hopeful until I found a couple of stems where someone or something has taken just the cap (odd that, you normally take the stem to help identify the fungus…) Then, after walking hopefully, several times, towards what turned out to be chalky rocks, I strolled over to another rock, only to find that it was a large Horse Mushroom, with another, smaller one nearby.
And then, with my eye now ‘in’ I found a dozen small field mushrooms. Not a bad haul for 20 minutes searching, and plenty for me and Di to have with a couple of fresh Sea Bass I’d picked up.
