The Norfolk Fungus Study Group led a fungi foray at Strumpshaw Fen today which my daughter was helping at.

I wandered around the reserve woodland hunting for slime moulds but was excited when one of the foray participants discovered a fallen mossy branch populated with Fluted Bird’s Nest — Cyathus striatus — which I had never seen before!

In the photo below you can see one of the peridia beginning to open.

And one of the NFSG leaders had cut in half a Phallus impudicus (common stinkhorn) egg to reveal the fascinating internal structure.

At Basecamp clusters of mature Stemonitis sporangia.

On a rotting ground level stump at the Sandy Glade, I spotted some wonderful gregarious and crowded Arcyria denudata — some still with a wine-red peridium and others without – duller in colour, rose and vinaceous.

https://naturemapr.org/species/1064

The day before — after The Outpost on a log pile off the path a Fuligo septica plasmodium.

And today.

In the same log pile some Arcyria cinerea,

and what I think is Stemonitopsis typhina.