Well spotted Glyn.It's always difficult to tell mushrooms just from photos but the first is probably a tawny grisette, if the second was on a birch tree or had fallen off it, it may be a razor strop fungus and I'd hazard a guess at the third being a mycena species 

I'm afraid I'm busy on the 20th - I will try to come along for the first hour but I can't promise

Thanks to everyone who came along yesterday to forage (in a non-esculentary fashion!) for fungi in Wivenhoe Wood - and particularly to Alan and Lewis for their sterling efforts in ferreting out specimens from the deepest depths of the woods. We hope you all enjoyed it - we certainly did, and felt it was very successful, with 30+ species identified (listed below) and a whole range of unidentified little (and not-so-little) brown jobs.

For the record, here are the english names of those we found (several of which are pictured above - thanks Jason,  and for the great write up on your blog):

Amethyst deceiver, Artist's fungus, Bay polypore, Beefsteak fungus, Blackish-purple cheese-cap, Bramble rust, Branching oyster, Candlesnuff fungus, Chicken-of-the-woods, Clouded agaric, Common earth-ball, Deceiver, Destroying Angel (DEADLY - enough to kill half of the group!), Fairies' bonnets, Fairy-ring mushroom, Glistening ink-cap, Hairy stereum, Jew's ear, Maze gill, Orange bonnet,  Razor-strop fungus, Shaggy parasol, Smooth puffball, Spectacular rust-gill, Spiny puffball, Stinkhorn, Sulphur tuft, Sycamore tar spot, Tripe jelly fungus, Wood blewits, White Saddle

Add to that as few other bits of interest, like the orange blobs of the slime-mould Lycogala terrestre,  and the lovely Silk-button galls beneath the leaves of oak.

Now is a great time to get out and look at fungi, and until the first hard frosts at least new ones could appear every day.

Chris, Greg, and Judith, the trug-bearer