Cold, damp and still was how the morning started, the ground rock-hard after an overnight frost, so I chose one of the safer walks....
....along the front below Dunrobin Castle then up into the woods where....
....the fungi turned out to be in a generous mood. This is witches' butter....
....this may be common jellyspot and....
....this is either a rather neat cup fungus or another of the jellyspots, but the highlight today was what initially looked like....
....scraps of tissue paper cast aside by an unenvironmental walker but turned out to be something we've seen in these woods before....
....hair ice. Conditions overnight must have been perfect for this strange fungus to have become active as I came across five of them. The ice hairs, which are a byproduct of the fungus' growth, were forming on odd sticks of dead wood lying on autumn's rotting leaves.
Cold, damp and still was how the morning started, the ground rock-hard after an overnight frost, so I chose one of the safer walks....
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