While walking through woods we spotted a rabbit.
Slow walking enabled us to get within a metre of the creature, Oryctolagus cuniculus, introduced into the UK by the Romans.
We followed the rabbit but it soon disappeared, possibly into a hole.
Near the trees where the rabbit vanished was a mushroom.
Amanita muscaria, or if you never had the Latin, the fly agaric mushroom.
The most iconic of the fungi.
Regularly cropping in literature among the moist, Birch printed pages of such classics as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
Here we have one in the natural environment, near Birch trees, with a size about the diameter of a CD.
Some others in this habitat were the size of dinner plates, like the pupils of those that have consumed them.
We left it for the more adventurous, and didn't follow anyone down any holes.
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