Bonnet mushrooms (mycenae) are a group of fungi species with bell-shaped caps on the top of narrow, fragile stems. The species can someitmes be hard to distinguish, but there are three different ones in this set: common, nitrous and ivory bonnets.
A tree overlooking the lake and the bandstand at West Park, a favoured gathering point form the pigeons.
Deceiver mushrooms, for once forming a fairy ring, a tree at the centre of the circle.
The first frosts of winter, at the end of last month, some of the vegetation which got a light dusting of ice crystals.
White saddle mushrooms with their contorted caps. These were growing in leaf litter just inches from the pipe club fungi pictured in yesterday’s post.
Moorhen swimming at top speed across the lake at West Park. Although there were a lot of other birds on the water, I couln’t see anything making it move so fast.