This isn't the ideal time of year for finding fungi, not because there aren't many fruiting bodies to be found but because spotting them amongst the mass of leaf litter is difficult. Some, like....
....these large oyster mushrooms (maybe) are easier to find than....
....those small ones whose colour is almost identical to the fallen leaves of the birch trees.
Despite this there are some beauties to be found, including this species which should be called ginger biscuit fungi as they are exactly the same colour as the ginger biscuits which Mrs MW cooks on a regular basis.
These may be sulphur tufts but, whatever their name, they looked so good growing against the brilliant greens of the moss.
As usual, I find it almost impossible to identify many of the fungi with any certainty - there are, after all, some 12,000 British fungi species to choose from - but the pleasure for me comes mostly from admiring them. These may be white dapperlings: I assume the length of their stalk, which makes them rather liable to fall over, is an evolutionary effort to keep their caps above the level of the surrounding vegetation.
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