This visit was memorable for this stump that we stumbled upon.

Ever since, on subsequent visits, we have always stopped by to check it out, but it has never been the same.

Our first ever Scutellinia Eyelash fungi !

Probably Phlebia radiata – Wrinkled Crust – on the left and on the right a sprawling slime mould plasmodium.

On a nearby dead Beech trunk…