Cley
Kestrel (Falco tinnunculus)
taking a preening moment in the sunshine before the fog came down again.
Cley
Pink-footed Goose (Anser brachyrhynchus)
Pink-footed Goose (Anser brachyrhynchus)
Drake Teal (Anas crecca)
Pinkfooted Geese (Anser brachyrhynchus)
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Shoveller (Anas clypeata)
Sparrowhawk (Accipiter nisus)
Teal (Anas crecca)
Salthouse
One murky misty morning the sun slowly broke through.
Pnkfeet (Anser brachyrhynchus) flying out from the roost for the day.
A Sticky Groundsel (Senecia viscosus) still in flower.
Two Shorelarks preening and feeding in amongst the stones.
Salthouse
Shore Lark (Eremophila alpestris)
Red Kite (Milvus milvus)
Aphid Sp on the Tree Lupin growing on the Little Eye
Cley
Black Tailed Godwit (Limosa limosa)
Cormorant (Phalacrocorax garbo)
Marsh Harrier (Circus aeruginosus)
Redshank (Tringa totanus)
Snipe (Gallinago gallinago)
Teal
Teal & Black Tailed Godwit (Limosa limosa)
Teal (Anas crecca)
Common Reed (Phragmites communis)
Little Grebe (Tachybaptus ruficollis)
Thursford Woods
A venerable Oak (Quercus robur)
?
Honey Fungus (Armillaria mellea)?
?
Common Bonnet (Mycena galericulata)?
?
Slender Club (Macrotyphea juncea)
Pipe Club (Macrotyphula fistulosa) was also present.
?
?
?
Rosey Bonnet (Mycena rosea)
Yellow Brain Fungus ( Tremella mesenterica)
Split Pore crust (Schizopora paradoxa)?
Mycena Sp?
Beefsteak Fungus ( Fistulina hepatica)
Common Grey Disco (Mollisia cinerea)?
Clustered Bonnet (Mycena inclinata)?
Bulbous Bonnet (Mycena stylobata)?
?
?
Conifer Cone Cap (Baeospora myosura)
Slime Mold Sp
Cley
Barn Owl (Tyto alba)
Reed (Phragmites communis)
Teal (Anas crecca)
Kingfisher (Alcedo althis)
Wheatfen
Willow backlit in the morning sunshine.
Hop (Humulus lupulus)
Guelder Rose (Viburnum opulus)
Duck weed in the dyke
Down in the wood.
Dappled sunlight over the stream in the wood
World Fungus Day
Wheatfen 8th October 2022
A display created by the Norfolk Fungus Study Group graced the workshop at Wheatfen
A chart showing past & present members of the Norfolk group
Something about the types of Fungi found in Norfolk and where they like to grow.
A book display
A stereo microscope set up with some specimens for inspection
One boy in particular enjoyed the compound microscope
And a superb display of mildews
50 Shades of Gray
The ancient magnifier doing sterling service
Looking at Field Bird's Nest Fungus brought from Martham
Field Bird's Nest (Cyathus olla)
A splendid introduction to the morning
Ready to foray with id charts at the ready
Photographing a Gall created by Andricus querquuscorticis
Dog's Vomit glimpsed on the tree stump
A first sniff
The eye glass stance
The wise woman of the Forest complete with willow basket for samples
The children stole the show
A good session enjoyed by all
Grey Shoulder-knot (Lithopane ornitopus) found on the wood pile.
This is a fungus (the little pinky blobs) parasitic on a lichen.
Heterocephalacria physciacearum
on
Physcia adscendens
A delightful Oak Bracket (Pseudoinonotus dradeus)
This did turn out to be Alder Bracket
The amber droplets exuding from the fungus are know as guttation.
More about guttation from Weird & Wonderful Wild Mushrooms
A striking example of guttation seen on Alder Bracket some years ago.
A younger version of this species of fungus was seen today with no guttation
Hypocrea Sp - Green Mould of Narcissus (Hypocrea rufa)?
Orange Peel Fungus possibly but awaiting microscopy
Willow Shield (Pluteus salicina)
A selection of spore prints.
Very easy to do at home (just lay fungus with the gills turned down to the paper) but do have some black paper as well just in case you have a fungus with white spores.
Wheatfen
Alder (Alnus glutinosa)
Yellow Water Lilly (Nyphea lutea)
Guelder Rose (Viburnum opulus)
Syderstone Common
Birch Polypore (Fomitopsis betulina)
Creeping Cinquefoil (Potentilla reptans)
Common Pincushion (Dicranoweisia cirrata) & Drumsticks (Aulocomnium androgynum)
Common Pincushion (Dicranoweisia cirrata)
Lovely community of Common Pincushion (Dicranoweisia cirrata) of a Birch (Betula pendula)
Shaggy Scalycap (Pholliota squarrosa)
Harebell (Campanula rotundifolia)
Grisette (Aminita vaginata)
Fungus Sp
Gramborough Hill
Looking towards Cley
Elder (Sambucus nigra)
Whitethroat (Sylvia communis) feeding on the Elder berries.
Gramborough Hill
Sea Aster Mining Bees (Colletes halophilus)
Spotted Satellite Fly (Miltogramma punctata)
Epeolus crucifer also present.
Dunlin (Calidris alpina)
Annual Sea-blite (Sueda maritima)
Snettisham
Linnet (Carduelis cannabina)- Blazzing in the morning sunshine
Knot (Calidris canutus)
Dunlin (Calidris Alpina) & Knot (Calidris canutus)
Dunlin (Calidris alpina)
Ruff (Philomachus pugnax)
Teasle (Dipsacus fullonum)
Common Sandpiper (Actitis hypoleucos)
Oystercatcher (Haematopus ostralegus)
Dunlin (Calidris alpina) & Knot 9Calidris canutus)
Common Tern (Sterna hirundo)
A little bit of scum flowing past.
Curlew (Numenius arquata) & Bar Tailed Godwit (Limosa lapponica)
Curlew (Numenius arquata)
Bar tailed Godwit (Limosa lapponica)
Avocet (Recurvirostra avosetta)
Horned Poppy (Glaucium flavum)
Leucsistic Oystercatcher
Sanderling (Calidris alba) & Dunlin (Calidris alpina)
Wheatear (Oenanthe oenanthe)
Wheatfen
Marsh Sowthistle (Sonchus palustris)
Megachile Sp? Looks like dark upstanding hairs at the end of the abdomen. Possibly Willughby's Leaf-cutter Bee (Megachile willughbyella)
Peacock (Aglais io)
Small Teasel (Dipsacus pilosus)
Yellow-loosestrife Bee (Macropsis europea)
Orange-belted Leaf Walker (Xylota segnis)
Ruddy Darter (Sympetrum sanguinium)
Lassioglossum Sp?
Col d'Izoard - France
Moonwort (botrychium lunaria)
Restharrow Sp
Saxifrage Sp
Trimmingham
Beautiful but a little distant. Bee-eaters nesting in Norfolk
Bee-eater (Merops apiaster)
Alderfen Broad
Greater Tussock-sedge (Carex paniculata)
Cranefly Sp? Tipula vernalis?
Azure Damselfly (Coenagrion puella)
Azure Damselfly (Coenagrion puella)
Hairy Dragonfly (Brachytron pratense)
Anasimyia lineata
Large Red Damselfly (Pyrrhosoma nyphula)
Moss Sp
Moss Sp
Royal Fern (Osmunda regalis) unfolding
Four-spotted Chaser (Libellula quadrimaculata)
Water Violet (Hottunia palustris)
Frost's Common
Greater Tussock-sedge (Carex paniculata)
Water Violet (Hottonia palustris)
These are the capsules of Silesian Feather Moss (Herzogiella seligeri)
Not the best of pictures so a return visit is on the cards.
The actual moss was well hidden under a carpet of Kindbergia
Rustwort (Nowellia curvifolia)
Lyell's Bristle-moss (Pulvigera lyellii)
Floating Crystalwort (Riccia fluitans)
Ulota Sp
Marsh Yellow Cress (Rorippa palustris)
Celery-leaved Buttercup (Ranunculus sceleratus)
Gramborough Hill
From this
to this
I'm not sure why someone has taken against the `Alexanders in thus way. They also smashed some down at the front of this little oasis.
On the surface it looks like the creation of a photo op stage.
If it was an ornithologist, I'd love to know the reasoning.
Little Eye
St Mark's Fly (Bibio marci) resting on Tree Lupin (Lupinus arboreus)
Flower head of the Tree Lupin encrusted with aphid sp
Aphid Sp on Tree Lupin (Lupinus arboreus)
Stiffkey fen
Plus the very briefest of glimpses of the Dusky Warbler
Gramborough Hill
Looking towards Cley from the top of Gramborough Hill
Meadow Pipit (Anthus pratensis)
Alexanders (Smyrnium olusatrum)
Willow Warbler (Phylloscopus trochilus) One of two this morning.
Goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis)
Plus
a
Wheatear
?
Ruston Cliff Wood - Yorkshire
A fantastic woodland flora of anemone, Dog's Mercury, Violets, Celandines and Rush Sp underneath Sycamore, Birch and Beech
Wood Anemone (Anemone nemorosa)
Dog's Mercury (Mercurialis perennis) blowing in the wind.
Hoverfly Sp on Lesser Celandine ( Ficaria verna)
Lesser Celandine (Ficaria verna)
Rush Sp
Dog Violet (Viola raviniana)
Spiral Extinguisher-moss (Encalypta streptocarpa)
Comb-moss (Ctenidium molluscum)
West Ayton - Yorkshire
Epiphyte laden Sycamore (Acer pseudoplatanus)
Marsh Marigold (Caltha palustris)
A rather lovely old Willow (Salix Sp)
Roadside Splendour
Kelling Heath
Lichen Sp
Lichen Sp
Forked Veilwort (Metzgeria furcata)
Lichen Sp
Lichen Sp
?
Some rather wonderful Oak Woodland on the the east slope of Kelling Heath
In the stubble
Little Bunting (Embiriza pusilla)
Barnham Broom Fen
Something from Hoveton to wet everyone's appetite
Sultanas on a stick?
Pine Jelly (Exidia saccharina)
Barnham Broom Fen
Fresh Reed Cutting
New ponds
Alder (Alnus glutinosa) woodland. - About 40 years old.
Older Alder
Galerina Sp with Swan's-neck Thyme-moss (Mnium hornum) in the background.
Mycelium pattern of Dewdrop Bonnet (Hemimycena tortuosa)
Dewdrop Bonnet
Mark the top one was taken with the 1.6 filter.
The bottom one was taken with the 1.6 Filter plus the Raynox 250 filter - giving 3.6 magnification.
Fungus growing on a Woodwart Sp
To be identified
Mark - This one taken with the combined 1.6 & 2.5
For comparison a Ruby Red microfungi also growing on a Woodwart Sp found at Upgate Common.
This one likely to be dialonectria epispheria
Lichen Sp growing on Oak.
Phlictis argenea
from the
British Lichen Society
On the Hawthorn Berry
Haw Goblet (Monilinia johnsonii)
from
UK Fungi
Dog's Mercury ( Mercurialis perennis)
Opposite-leaved Golden Saxifrage (Chrysosplenium oppositifolium)
Pinkgill Sp Entoloma Sp
This one confused everyone.
To be determined.
Elfcup Sp
from
Mark Jpy
Sarcoscypha austriaca, Scarlet Elfcup I found these on rotting fallen logs & thick branches (of Willow sp. I think) in moss.
Under the microscope the cup surface hairs were very colied (ruling out Ruby Elfcup, Sarcoscypha coccinea) & also the spores were too wide for Ruby Elf Cup).
Fungus ona Lichen
Both to be determined.
Mark again the top one taken with the 1.6 and the lower one with the combined 1.6 & 2.5
Wheatfen
Marsh Marigold (Caltha palustris)
Buzzard (Buteo buteo)
Bonfire Moss (Funaria hygrometrica)
Indian Feather-moss (Timmia megapolitana)
First found by Bob Ellis in 2000 and Wheatfen is still the only British Site for this moss.
from the
Red Data Book
Wheatfen Broad, part of the Ted Ellis Nature Reserve within the Yare Broads and Marshes SSSI, where Bob Ellis first found it in 2000 is still the only British site for this moss. It occurs on willow branches lying on bare mud in carr woodland where tidal flows mean that it can be under water for a number of days. The nearest population to that at Wheatfen, is in the Netherlands where it grows in similar conditions. Although found, so far, in only two adjacent 2 km grid squares, the Norfolk population is estimated at well over two million individual plants. Given concerns about Timmia megapolitana elsewhere in Europe, the population here appears to be of high conservation importance. by Mary Ghullam
Freshwater tidal Sallix Carr.
Rockland Broad
Willow Sp
Great Crested Grebe (Podiceps cristatus)
Wheatfen
Still enough for good reflections.
Reedmace (typha latifolia) reflection
Reed Bunting (Emberiza schoeniclus) singing in the early morning light.
An adult male Siskin (Carduelis spinus) high up in the Poplar nibbling on the catkins.
Greater Tussock Sedge (Carex stricta)
Long Tailed Tit (Aegithalos caudatus) gathering nest material.
A pair of Teal (Anas crecca) flushed by a Marsh Harrier
Netted Crust (Byssomerulius coreum)
A dark furry looking fungus that doesn't really come across in this photograph.
Chaetosphaerella phaestroma
Unknown?
Scarlet Elf Cup Sp
Glistening Inkcap (Coprinellus micaceus)
Hypoxylon Sp?
Lichen Sp
Something of an unknown.?
?
Peniophora Sp?
Deep Water
Wheatfen
The Gall of the Yellow flat-footed Fly (Agathomyia wankowiczii) on Artist's Bracket (Ganoderma aplanata)
The little fly is actually a wonderful bright orange with red eyes but very rarely seen.
First UK find was in Kent in 1990.
?
Alder Goblet Cup Fungus (Ciboria caucus)
Alder(Alnus glutinosa) in the evening light
A brief glimpse of a Marsh Harrier (Circus aeruginosus) over the tree tops.
Houghen Plantation
Pond Clump (!3)
Valley FenMire & Wet Heath
Boundary ditch between Poplar Plantation & Secondary Woodland & the Scrub/Bracken & Rough Grass
Crisped/Bruch's Pincushion (Ulotta crispa/bruchii)
Dilated Scalewort (Frullen dilatata) and Cypress-leaved Plait Moss (Hypnum cupressiforme)
Scrub, Bracken, Rough grass (Formerly part of the Pine Plantation)
Scot's Pine Plantation (Pinus sylvestris)
Chestnut (Castanea sativa) Coppice & Silver Birch (Betula Sp) - Whinny Hills
East Wretham
Hornbeam (Carpinus betulus)
Oak (Quercus robur) & Hornbeam (Carpinus betulus)
Crisped /Bruch's Pincushion (Ulotta Sp)
Common Pincushion (Dicranoweisia cirrata)
Red Beard-moss (Bryoerythrophyllum recurvirostrum)
Houghen Plantation
In the Fen Area
Fen Stump
Bog Groove-moss (Aulucomnium palustre) with felt on the stem in amongst Blunt-leaved Bog-moss (Sphagnum palustre)
Male Plants
Female Plants
Juniper Haircap (Polytrichum juniperinum)
Heath Star-moss )Campylopus introflexus)
Cape Thread Moss (Orthodontium lineare)
New growth on Overleaf Pellia (Pellia epiphylla)
Flat-topped Bog-moss (Sphagnum fallax)
In this case green but can also be a mustard colour.
You can see many of the fascicle branches spreading out curving away from the stem but it also just possible to see the slender pendent branches lying close next to the stem.
Blunt-leaved Bog-moss (Sphagnum palustre)
Cley
Brent (Branta bernicla)
Marsh Harrier (Circus aeruginosus)
Pintail (Anas acuta)
Red Breasted Goose (Branta ruficollis)
Reed Bunting (Embiriza schoeniclus)
Shellduck (Tadorna tadorna)
Stonechat (Saxicola torquata)
Cley
from
Salthouse Hill
Looking towards Salthouse from the Beach Road
Looking towards Blakeney from the Beach Rd
Brent & Golden Plover over the Eye Field
Golden Plover (Pluvialis apricaria)
Brent (Branta bernicla) plus one.
Red Breasted Goose (Branta ruficollis)
Pink Footed Geese (Anser brachyrhynchus) in the evening light.
Cockthorpe Common
Lesser Celandine (Ficaria verna)
Upright Pottia (Microbryum rectum)
Cuspidate Earth-moss (Phascum cuspidate) & Lesser Bird's Claw Beard-moss (Barbula convolute)
Chalk Screw-moss (Tortula vahliana)
Yellow Feather-moss (Homolothecium lutescens)
Blakeney Freshes
Under glorious skies the Pinkfeet flew in about 11.30am
A pair of Red Kites (Milvus milvus) quartering the reed bed.
Pink Footed Goose (Anser brachyrhynchus)
Spout Hills
Snowdrop (Galanthis nivalis)
Creeping feather-moss (Amblystegium serpens)
Crimson-tuber Thread-moss (Bryum rubens)
Rough Stalked Feather-moss (Brachythecium rutabulum)
Note the bright lime green new growth tips.
Common Pincushion (Dicranoweissia cirrata)
Note the yellow seta
Soft-tufted Beard-moss (Didymodon vinealis)
Although curled leaves; the leaves only twist slightly and become adpressed to the stem when dry.
Hairy Curtain Crust (Stereum hirsutum)
Netted Crust (Byssomerulius corium)
Shoot tip
Swartz's Feather-moss (Oxyrrhynchium hians)
Unusually large mats growing on a wall.
On an area of freshly cleared ground the pioneer species Taper-leaved Earth-moss (pleuridium acuminatum)
White-tipped Bristle-moss (Orthotrichum diaphanum)
x 1000
Yoke-moss Sp (Zygodon Sp)
The longitudinal walls of the gemmae mean this is
Green Yoke-moss (Zygodon viridissimus)
Long-beaked Water Feather-moss (Platyhypnidium riparioides)
Fern-leaved Hook-moss (Cratneuron filicinum)
Bluish Veilwort (Metzgeria fruticulosa)
Swan's-neck Thyme-moss (Mnium hornum)
Dwarf Feather-moss (Rhynchostegiella pumila)
Hart's Tongue Fern (Asplenium scolopendrium)
Minsmere - Suffolk
Rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus)
Sparrowhawk (Accipiter nisus)
Robin (Erithacus rubecula)
Marsh Harrier (Circus aeruginosus)
Minsmere - Suffolk
Goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis)
Siskin (Carduelis spinus)
Bearded Tit (Panurus biarmicus)
Whooper Swan (Cygnus cygnus)
Minsmere - Suffolk
Teal (Anas crecca)
Bearded Tit (Panurus biarmicus)
Blue Tit (Cyanistes caeruleus)
Golcrest (Regulus regulus)
Magpie (Pica pica)
Bearded Tit (Panurus biarmicus)
Stonechat (Saxicola torquata)
Minsmere - Suffolk
Oak (Quercus robur)
Gadwall (Anas strepera)
Dunlin (Calidris alpina)
Shoveller (Anas clypeata)
Teal (Ana crecca)
Whooper Swan (Cygnus cygnus)
Bearded Tit (Panurus biarmicus)
Walberswick - Suffolk
Great Reed Mace (Typha latifolia)
Great White Egret (Ardea alba)
Eastbridge - Suffolk
Oak (Quercus robur)
Alder (Alnus glutinosa)
Alder (Alnus glutinosa)
Salix Sp
Kelling Heath
Silver Birch (Betual pendula)
Dilated Scalewort (Frullania dilatata) with new growth.
Cushion Bracket (Phellinus pomaceus) on Blackthorn (Prunus spinosa)
Staghorn Lichen (Evernia prunastri)
Forked Veilwort (Metzgeria furcata)
Winterton
Stunted Oak (Quercus robur)
Marsh Harrier (Circus aeruginosus)
Sort Eared Owl - (Asio flammeus)
Like a tinted Woodcut in the evening light.
Dersingham Bog
Dung Beetle
Dung Fungus Sp
Turned out to be
Cow Pat Gem (Cheilymenia granulata)
Thanks to Mark Joy for id
Fungus Sp on Neat feather-moss (Pseudoscleropodium purum)
From Steve Judd
The small white things growing on moss happily allowed me to find plentiful spores to measure and lots of
hyphae with a complete absence of clamp connections leave me comfortable that I have Arrhenia retiruga - Small Moss Oysterling.
Small Moss Oysterling (Arrhenia retiruga)
Fungus Sp
This one turned out to be Byssonectria terrestris
From
First Nature
Thanks to Mark Joy for id.
Young Fungus Sp?
Melastiza contorta
Orange Cup Sp?
from
Steve Judd
Now to the less certain, the little orange cup jobbies: If you want to read the full process of the addled mind of a confused very amateur mycologist read on otherwise skip to the end. These little orange jobbies were a real challenge. I started with microscopy so that I knew the spore size, shape, surface and contents as well as what the paraphyses looked like before working through the Fungi of temperate Europe book looking for something similar. The paraphyses fitted nicely to the Melastiza family the spore size fitted Melastiza cornubiensis although the fruiting body didn't look right and the spores lacked reticulations, I considered M. flavorubens as that has warts on the spores rather than reticulations but no these really are smooth. Not a Melastiza so on to Octospora as the spore shape was right but far too small. Some of the Anthrocobia looked really promising in both spore shape, size and even the paraphyses looked close, the downside being thatAnthrocobia only grow on recent fire sites and there really wasn't any evidence of a recent burn. I worked through the good old faithful Peter Thompson rechecking everything that I had already lookedat and adding many more including a few absurd ideas out of desperation such as Cheilymenia vitellina which had the right sized spores but wrong habitat. Then after what felt like may hours of poring throughthe pages, out of the book leapt the perfect answer, spore size well within range, the book described perfectly the hairs on the outer surface, the fungi grow individually or in small groups on soil under deciduous trees, sandy soil, heathland, grassland and under bracken. This one has been recorded once in Norfolk identified by Tony Leach at Beeston Regis Common, I am going to have to check with Tony but in the mean time I am going to tentatively suggest Pseudaleuria fibrillosa. Of course I am very open to the likelihood that I am completely wrong and will be very interested to hear what you folks come up
with from your findings and research.
This was later confirmed by Tony
The full deliberations from Steve
I have a tentative ID that I would greatly appreciate your thoughts on.
Gill and I went to Dersingham bog to meet up with Mike and Mark for a walk. Whilst there Gill found some small, bright orange yellow 1-1.5cm cups growing singly and in small groups on the sandy soil on the higher heath type ground amongst the moss. These had a look of Melastiza without the black edge hairs although this family was probably what sprang to mind having just been looking at the M. contorta.
I took one home for further examination and below are my observations and thoughts:
I started with a close examination under the stereo microscope, internally they were very little different under the stereo than seen by the naked eye, the outer infertile surface was more interesting with apparent hairs more prolific nearer the rim, some paler and some darker but none that were actually black.
Moving to microscopy to get the spore size, shape, surface and contents as well as seeing what the paraphyses looked like.
Spores (14) 15-17 (18) x 7- 8 (9) µm smooth with an apparent thick wall evident in those showing contents, but without any obvious surface ornamentation. Having examined with water I then tried again this time using Meltzer's, again with disclosing solution and finally with Lactophenol cotton blue to be sure that they really were smooth, which they were even at x1000.
Paraphyses were long slender with a very swollen tip and a yellow contents when viewed in water. The paraphyses and asci showed no reaction to Iodine.
Confident that it wasn't anything that I recognised I then worked through the books (Fungi of temperate Europe, Fungi of Switzerland vol 1 and Peter Thompson Ascomycetes) looking for something similar.
My deliberations:
The paraphyses fitted nicely to the Melastiza family but none of them were right for various reasons. I considered Octospora as the spore shape was right but wrong size. Some of the Anthrocobia looked really promising in both spore shape, size and even the paraphyses looked close, the downside being that Anthrocobia appear to only grow on recent fire sites and there really wasn't any evidence of a recent burn. I continued through the books rechecking everything that I had already looked at and adding many more less likely ideas out of desperation such as Cheilymenia vitellina which had the right sized spores but wrong habitat.
Going again through Peter Thompson I noticed Pseudaleuria fibrillosa which wasn't in any of the other books. Working through the description the spore size was within range, the description of paraphyses seemed right, the book described perfectly the hairs on the outer surface, the fungi growing individually or in small groups on soil under deciduous trees, sandy soil, heathland, grassland and under bracken. Looking this one up on the internet I found very little apart from an article on "The occurrence of Pseudaleuria fibrillosa in Sicily" My Italian is non existent but the photos in the document showed spores and paraphyses that were a perfect match to what I had photographed through the microscope, leaving me feeling relatively comfortable with my ID.
Of course the next thing I did was check the Norfolk Mycota to discover that it has only been recorded once in Norfolk identified by yourself at Beeston Regis Common, seeing as it was that uncommon my confidence in my ID rapidly diminished. I am very open to the likelihood that I am completely wrong and will be very interested to hear what you think. I have attached a few photographs of the fruiting body in situ and our microscopy images.
Many thanks for reading through all this.
Pseudaleria fibrillosa
Yellowleg Bonnet (Mycena epipterygia)
This is has an extremely sticky characteristic. It's very difficult to put down once picked up.
You can see the stickiness on the stype.