Friday 22 January 2016

Widewater mergansers and Woods Mill fungi

Red-breasted Merganser ♂, Mergus serrator
On January 12th I visited Widewater and found a pair of Red-breasted Mergansers and a hovering Kestrel. Then I walked round Woods Mill reserve and found plenty of fungi: Sulphur Tuft, Inkcap, Beech Jellydisc, Birch Polypore, Blushing Bracket, Hairy Curtain Crust, King Alfred's Cake, Silverleaf Fungus plus a Slime Mould.
Kestrel, Falco tinnunculus
Red-breasted Mergansers, Mergus serrator
Woods Mill:
Purple Jellydisc, Ascocoryne sarcoides
Purple Jellydisc
Purple Jellydisc
Purple Jellydisc
Birch Polypore, Piptoporus betulinus
Birch Polypore
Blushing Bracket, Daedaleopsis confragosa
Blushing Bracket
Bonnet fungus, Mycena species
Bracket fungus - id needed
Bracket fungus above - id needed
spongy fungus - id needed
bracket fungus - id needed
Hairy Curtain Crust, Stereum hirsutum
Hairy Curtain Crust
Hairy Curtain Crust
Hairy Curtain Crust
Hairy Curtain Crust
Inkcap, Coprinellus species
Inkcap, Coprinellus species
Inkcap, Coprinellus species
King Alfred's Cake, Daldinia concentrica
King Alfred's Cake
midge - id needed
Oak Curtain Crust, Hymenochaete rubiginosa
Oysterling, Crepidotus species
Silverleaf Fungus, Chondrostereum purpureum
Silverleaf Fungus
Slime mould, Metatrichia floriformis

black Sporocarps stalked, Spores red-brown.
Slime mould, Metatrichia floriformis
Sulphur Tuft, Hypholoma fasciculare
Sulphur Tuft, Hypholoma fasciculare

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