And another.......

This time it is Hygrocybe irrigata - the Slimy Waxcap. A lovely mixture of slimy browns and greys with subtle grey gills. Why all these new waxcaps are appearing here is a mystery to me. Of course it might be the results of my sympathetic management but it is more likely that it is either the particular weather conditions or that I hadn't spotted these fungi before. With many of them you have to be patrolling daily - no sooner do they spring up then they get nobbled by animals or parisitized by other fungi - or they just finish their fruiting job really quickly.