Another day, more fungi photos. I am reasonably confident of my ID for two of them, Hairy Bracket (Trametes hirsuta) found on a rotting twig of hawthorn or blackthorn and Crimped Gill (Plicaturopsis crispa) found on a fallen birch branch. One I have less confidence with is Cellar Fungus/Wet Rot (Coniophora puteana) while another two I make no attempt to identify.

How carefully did you look at the fungi photos? Did you spot the springtails? One is on the underside of the Crimped Gill. From the size of this individual, approximately 3.5 mm (I can work out the size from the known frame width in the unprocessed RAW image file), and the pronounced pale barring on the abdomen, I would guess that this one of the larger UK springtails, a Belted Springtail (Orchesella cincta). O. cincta is a grazer that feeds mainly on algae and fungi on the soil surface, as well as decomposing plant material, such as leaf litter. It is quite mobile and will also climb trees and shrubs to forage, so finding it on a rotting branch only inches above the ground is not surprising. The other springtail is on one of the unidentified fungi. This one is tiny, approximately 0.8 mm, and appears to be a globular springtail, though too small to achieve the resolution needed to make a more definitive ID.

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