Along the plum hedge there were small patches of a leaf gall. This might have been Eriophyes similis according to a previous ispot posting, so its up for checking.
The picture below shows a close-up of the the pouch galls on the underside of the leaf, not confined to the margins:
By the poplar windbreak the second(?) one along from the kissing gate had a superb fresh Dryad's Saddle, Polyporus squamosus, growing out of the pollard trunk as well as a decayed growth from last year - and the regrowth of the pollard was very weak, unsurprisingly perhaps considering the extent and duration of the fungal attack. Here are two photos of this year's Dryads's Saddle outgrowth, at different magnifications:
It seems to me that pollarding these poplars has not been an unmitigated success - it seems likely to allow disease in, and create weak points at the pollard regrowth.
On the left of the tarmac path going back towards Victoria Road there were new mushrooms, looking a bit like field mushrooms, but perhaps not quite.
Things have certainly moved on, the elder is coming into flower!
I have been checking the stitchwort (Stellaria media) flowers for pollinators, but found absolutely no takers as yet, At last, today, a visitor, a tiny black bee!
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