Blue Roundhead (probably)
Sightings from this morning’s work party members:
Birds: Blue Tit, Carrion Crow, Common Buzzard, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Great Tit, Jay, Long-tailed Tit, Mallard, Moorhen, Raven, Robin, Woodpigeon.
Butterflies: Comma (basking on Broad-leaved Pondweed in the Bottom Pond), Red Admiral, Small Tortoiseshell, Speckled Wood.
Dragonflies: Common Darter, Southern Hawker.
Other insects: Golden-bloomed Grey Longhorn Beetle.
Mammal: Hedgehog (droppings on west path beside C2).
Amphibians: Common Frog, Common Toad.
Fungus: A Stropharia mushroom, probably S. caerulea aka Blue Roundhead. (Not edible and possibly poisonous.)