Beefsteak Fungus

 

This is another fungus from my visit to Arrowe Park on 25th September - The Beefsteak Fungus (Fistulina hepatica).

Why do so many people - who would probably never pick or damage a flower - feel the need to destroy every fungus they see? So often in public parks there are damaged fungi everywhere and certainly not all can be blamed on the squirrels.  At least in this case it enabled me to positively identify them and to demonstrate why they are so called.

Sparrowhawk

 

I've seen plenty of Sparrowhawks over the years but despite poor light and a window in the way I got my best photos of one on 25th September.

Rooting Brittlehead

 
I don't have a complete list of the fungi I have photographed.  I must sort them out some day.  In the meantime I thought I would put some of the recent ones on this site.  

These are the Rooting Brittlehead ( Psathyrella gracilis).  They were in Arrowe Park, Wirral, on 25th September.

Jersey Tiger

 
I briefly saw a Jersey Tiger skip past in the car park at Otter Nurseries last year.  This year one came into the garden at Frog End.

Autumn Green Carpet

Autumn Green Carpet
 A third new species from the moth trap at Frog End.

Setaceous Hebrew Character

  

The Setaceous Hebrew Character was another new species for me when we ran the moth trap at Helen and Ian's.

The Purple Clay is a species that I ave previously recorded but which  do not seem to have a photo of.

Cypress Pug

 

One of the species that appeared in the moth trap at Frog End, Exeter,on 29/30th August was the Cypress Pug.  A resident species, it was first recorded in Britain in 1959 in Cornwall.  It has now spread at lest as far North as Rugby and is well established along the South Coast.