Yipeeeeee

    What a week I've had, one fungi which as alluded me so far was the Bird's Nest fungus. These tiny little cups are very hard to spot but once you do then boy is it worth all the searching. Some people go years without spotting these amazing little fungi but as you have probably guessed I have at last found my first examples, in fact I found lots. Of all the places I haver searched for these little beauties I just happen to find them in my own village here in the fens.

   The Bird's Nest fungus(Cyathus olla) are small cup shaped  fungi in which sit their tiny egg-shaped spores, thus getting the name Bird's Nest.

   They are found on earth or mossy  areas where small twigs or sticks are part buried. The fungus itself grows on these twigs starting off as little pellet shaped eggs then forming into a real cup shaped fruiting body full of those tiny egg shap spores.

   On this occasion I was bent down taking photos of some lovely bright orange Eyelash fungus when just inches from it I spotting two birds nests. Boy was I excited, good job I was along as gave out a bit of a yell at this point. To say I was excited is an understatement, I was over the bloody moon. My eyes were then searching the area for the next hour, finding more and more. All this and only around half a mile from my front door.