A beautiful day for fungi!

[cowshill]

Here in Upper Weardale calm cloudless warm fall days are not very common, so I couldn't resist the extra weight of my rather clunky camera on our daily dog walk around Burnhope Reservoir. Here are a couple of shots of what we see every day, looking first downstream then up, from the top of the reservoir.



And here's a few of the fungi we saw along the way.

Still trying to identify this for sure. Lepista nuda (wood blewit)?

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Agaricus silvaticus (blushing wood mushroom)



No idea what this is, but I loved the appearance of this mature specimen. Younger ones are plain brown with hemispherical caps. Gills and stems the same colour as the cap (or a little lighter). This one was about 5" diameter.



As I've written before, it's an absolute banner year for a. muscaria here, but the deer eat them to the ground almost the moment they pop up. Here's one that was hiding under some dead branches, so has so far escaped the deer's notice.



And finally, if anyone can help me, I'd like to know what this white fungus is. It's growing in quite large troops in several spots along the edge of the raised gravel path through the spruce forest.



All in all, a beautiful day!

- Jim