Tag: County Mayo
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Sea ivory lichen at Downpatrick Head 🇮🇪

Happy Fungi Friday! 🍄 In September I visited Downpatrick Head on the North Mayo coast, to see the famous sea stack (header image). It was extremely blustery so I couldn’t spend too much time near the cliff edge trying to get a good view of the sea stack. Something else…
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Deathcaps at Lough Cullin 🇮🇪

Happy Fungi Friday! An interesting find on a visit to Mayo in Ireland this week. September is a good month for deathcaps, and so it showed. The first thing I saw was this upturned mushroom cap, which I went to inspect. You can see the remnants of a veil at…
