Yesterday we enjoyed a lovely walk round Blackford Pond and through the Hermitage of Braid. The autumnal colours were particularly beautiful, especially the beech trees. Beech has a bit of a bad reputation among ecologists being a non-native species, but it is undeniably lovely in autumn as you can see in the photos below.
We didn't find as many fungi as we had hoped to find, but there were some, including, as seen in the photo below,Common Puffballs with Candlesnuff in the background
A few Grey Squirrels were running around too
