We [or rather Richard, our friendly contractor] have started coppicing the west end of Titania’s Bower.  The aim is to deal with about one acre this season :

Autumn is relatively early this year and the fungi are already prolific although we are not the best at identification.  What is this, spotted along Main Ride, for instance :

This one, possible one of the Honey Fungus family, was erupting from the base of a very dead but still standing oak in Bellhurst Wood :

It could be Armillaria mellea in which case it is highly prized as an edible but one is advised not to take alcohol for the 12 hours before eating nor the 24 hours after so perhaps ‘highly prized’ is not quite the best way to describe it.

These of course are bracket fungi [growing a fallen branch in Titania’s Bower] but which one? :

The prize for looks must surely go to the small puffballs which have sprung up all over Titania’s Bower.  They are typically 25 mm [1 inch] in diameter :

They are probably the Common Puffball of the UK, Lycoperdon perlatum.

By the way, if you ever wonder what eats all those fungi in the woods, we have found at least one culprit in the act :