It's been a poor year here for fungi so the occasional 'special' has been very welcome - up to a point, that point being my aversion to spending hours trying to identify them. The best I can do with this one, found on the banks of Loch Lochy, is that it's a bracket, a polypore, possibly a birch polypore.
This little collection looks like one of the amanitas, a family which includes fly agaric and the panthercap. To get a better identification I would have had to look at their stems but the fungi were high up on an inaccessible bank.
It's a pleasure when, out for a walk, one stumbles across something which has such rich colour. I have no idea what it is, other than it's a gill, but I'm grateful to it for cheering up an otherwise dull walk.
On the subject of cheering up, this one wins the prize. It was found in a Scots pine plantation, all by itself, happily growing on pine needles - but Mrs MW had passed the spot only two days before, and noticed nothing, so this is a fast grower.
It's a pore of some sort, a bolete, perhaps a bay bolete, the 'bay' referring to its colour rather than a geographical feature.
What is interesting is the strange growth to the upper right in this picture. The only explanation I can think of is that the fungus had to grow round a stick which has subsequently broken away.
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