This 'Orange Birch Bolete' was less than 5 yards from the roadside.

Unloading a bit of gear, including a flask and munchies that Shirley had prepared, we shouldered the load ready for the hike into the woods. Crossing the road and finding an apropriate spot to enter the labrynth took us a maximum of 20 yards and crossing that hump you get a the verge another 2 yards. It was there that we encountered our fist specimen! Half an hour later we had decent images of three more species on the memory cards and we had travelled no more than 50 yards from the car! After an hour and a half, with Shirley's arms aching from holding a large reflector over her head while I shot brackets halfway up a tree, we found a couple of stumps to sit and have a break.

Shirley getting a well earned rest.

This 'Fox with Prey' was hard work for a captive animal.

It took half an hour to get one reasonable image!