This was a great start, as I have found most of my Chanterelles in this area. Unfortunately, that was the only one I found! I carried on and found this Shaggy Ink Cap (edible). These are common and sometimes grow on my lawn at home.
As usual, there was plenty of evidence of wild boars around the car park verges.
You can see where the boar has "rooted" along with his nose in the turf. Although they are culling the boar, I see plenty of fresh evidence of their presence. I carried on and saw this pretty fungi growing from an old tree stump. I didn't find this in my first pass through the Roger Phillips book. Will check again.
I could hear a buzzard calling, so I stopped to watch it. After a few minutes there were four flying around. Maybe a pair and their offspring. One landed on a tree along way off, but I got this shot using 28x zoom!
Not many fungi around yet. Still too dry perhaps, but I came across this nice bracket fungus on a dead tree stump. Possibly a Many Zoned Polypore.
The most common fungi around this day was this puffball. Possibly a Common Earth-ball.
On the way back to the car I saw this small orange fungi. Again, not found in first trawl through Roger Phillips book. I'll have another look.
Even with the Roger Phillips book, fungi is difficult to identify! 40,000+ varieties in the UK!
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