They seem to be doing a lot of logging on the slopes of the valley and not long after this point I lost the path and started up and across a field but couldn't seem to find a way out and had to backtrack.
There were lots of fungi looking like this one but I have no idea what they were.
I did find this though, a parasol mushroom. I had it identified by someone very knowledgeable in mycology but by then it had dried out too much for me to want to eat it. I shall know where to look for it next year now.
Unfortunately, my newly found expert in fungi is leaving Brittany to return to the UK to live, so I won't have his expertise on hand for this Autumn's bounty. Hopefully I can contact him with photographs by email and get his help that way.
As I came back round my field I found that six of my newest Light Sussex hens were perching under the old table - I can count - two of them had jumped down by the time I got the camera switched on again! There are so many feathers on the ground it almost looks as if a fox attack has occurred, but it's just where they've been moulting.
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