Well, the weather has been mainly dry with just one very wet
spell which was sufficient, bring on the mushrooms!!! However
the fungi and the fine autumn colour were cut short by a series
of severe frosts at the end of October. Indeed it was one of the
sunniest Octobers ever seen in Milton Keynes. The cloudless
skies also let the heat escape after dark, which lead to some of
the lowest night temperatures ever recorded in October. Fungi
Fungi flourished in the moist conditions of early October and
twenty eight different species of mushroom were found on one
lunch time walk! Birds The summer migrants flew south in search
of more hospitable weather conditions. Although not many winter
migrants seemed to have arrived yet, there have been plenty of
greylag geese feeding in the fields surrounding the campus.
They've been sharing the pasture with with sheep and the
occasional Canada goose. The picture to the right is of a Tringa
Totanus or what is more commonly known as a Redshank. The
Redshank is roughly the size of