Dry and bright.
There were very few fungi around. Despite all the rain, the ground is very dry. This is the early stage of Boletus chrysenteron. The felty surface will dissappear to be replaced by a shiny, cracked one. Red-Cracking Bolete.
I spotted a couple of large (30cm.) specimens of Lawyers Wig - Coprinus comatus.
From one end of the Coprinus scale to the other. This is a new batch of Coprinus disseminatus - Fairy Bonnets. Caps about 6-8mm across.
A couple of Panaeolus specimens in grassland. You can see how dry they were (they're dark when wet).
A very large Bolete under Beech. There were perhaps half a dozen of these in a patch about 2m across. Individual caps about 15 cm. across.
The flesh went immediately blue on exposure to the air. Closest match I can find is Boletus pulverulentus...a scarce one, if correct.
I had to resort to taking pictures of insects and leaf-miners to occupy my time.
This is a gallery-converting-to-blotch miner on Meadowsweet. The Agromyzid Fly Agromyza idaeina.
There are a few captive Red Deer near the Lough.
Cervus elaphus.