Visitors to The Lodge cannot fail to be impressed by the amazing displays of fungi around the reserve at the moment. The popular fly agarics that are clustered in groups around the base of silver birch trees really have the wow factor! If you imagine the perfect red, conical capped toadstool, with a bright white stem, then that's the fly agaric. You can just imagine a pixie sitting on top! As they age, the red disapears and the cap turns inside out, making a perfect drinking bowl for wildlife when it rains.Humans mustn't touch them however, red certainly means danger with the fly agaric. The best place to see them is as you wonder around the Sandy Ridge trail. but they are along the path to the hide, in the car park and in other areas of the site as well.The county recorder comes to The Lodge on November 6th to lead two fungi foray walks, one in the morning and one in the afternoon, to identify some of the 600 or so fungi that have been recorded on the reserve over the years, that's an incredible total!