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Fungi Field Guides - invaluable for the identification of mushrooms and toadstools

Fungus Field Guides provide invaluable - no, absolutely essential - assistance for those who want to correctly identify mushrooms and toadstools. In fact, for those who really want to master mushroom and toadstool identification, access to multiple fungi field guides is particularly useful.

Websites, too, are potentially helpful, both when accessible on a phone, for example, whilst out in the countryside, and for more leisurely study at home.

Help me to help you (please)
Many field guides are available through the Amazon website, where can also be found customer reviews. Prices are usually extremely competitive, the ordering process is quick and easy, and delivery is typically fast.

Furthermore - important from my perspective - purchasing anything from Amazon via this link results in the receipt of a modest contribution towards the cost of developing and maintaining this free-to-use New Forest website which, unlike some other similar sites, is not funded by the local Council, the National Park Authority or through any other form of public taxation. (In essence, purchasing via this link costs you nothing and helps ensure that this site will be improved and maintained in the future.)

On-line resources

Kew Royal Botanic Gardens
This website has a wealth of information about fungi, their biology, species accounts and more - it's well worth a look.

Hampshire Fungus Recording Group
Membership of the Hampshire Fungus Recording Group is open to all who wish to share and develop an interest in the world of fungi. The website includes details of past and forthcoming forays but is particularly useful for its Hampshire fungus distribution maps.

British Mycological Society
A registered charity, the British Mycological Society is open to all who are interested in promoting and learning about fungi. It has member sections devoted to particular aspects of the fungal world including research into many aspects of fungal science, the conservation and recording of fungi and the provision of educational resources. The website contains further information about the Society.

National Biodiversity Network Gateway
Provides access to UK fungus distribution maps.

MushroomExpert.Com
Although a US-based website, there is lots of useful information here including a particularly helpful glossary of mycological terms.

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** New Forest ponies and other animals**
The New Forest
Commoners' ponies, cattle, pigs, sheep and donkeys are a popular part of the New Forest scene, but during 2019 agisters attended 159 road traffic accidents involving these animals, a small but disappointing increase on the 154 accidents attended in 2018.

Sadly, 58 animals were killed - 35 ponies, 13 cows, 8 donkeys and 2 sheep, whilst a further 32 were injured - 3 pigs, 9 donkeys, 11 cows and 9 ponies.

(Forty-three accidents occurred in daylight, 15 at twilight and 101 in the dark. Twenty-seven accidents were not reported by the driver involved).

Here's just one horrific example - Three donkeys killed in collision with van at notorious New Forest blackspot (Advertiser and Times)
** Always take care when driving **
Content produced by Andrew Walmsley
Content produced by Andrew Walmsley