Thu 2011-02-10 
From last October: Lauxaniid flies mating, possibly Tricholauxania praeusta (Diptera: Lauxaniidae). See here also. They were on a patch of nettles beside the path near the Wilderness Road entrance to the university grounds.
Photos taken in the Wilderness, Whiteknights Park, Reading University grounds, Reading, UK, on 2010-10-29.
Wed 2011-02-09 
Another photo of what I think is Cylindrobasidium evolvens. See here for two different forms.
Photo taken in the Wilderness, Whiteknights Park, Reading University grounds, Reading, UK, on 2011-01-26
Tue 2011-02-08 
From last summer: a small moth, probably an Epiblema sp (Lepidoptera: Torticidae). This genus contains several species that look like this, in particular E. scutulana, E. cirsiana, and E. sticticana. These cannot be reliably distinguished by photographs alone.
Photo taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading University grounds, Reading, UK, on 2010-06-02.
Mon 2011-02-07 
Oyster mushrooms (Pleurotus ostreatus) growing on a beech tree. The brownish colour suggests that these mushrooms are fairly mature.
This unfortunate beech tree also had a bracket fungus and the first signs of Kretzschmaria deusta at the base of its trunk.
Photo taken in the Wilderness, Whiteknights Park, Reading University grounds, Reading, UK, on 2011-02-05.
Sun 2011-02-06 
Tooth marks in the bark on a fallen tree branch, probably made by a small mammal such as a squirrel. The whitish marks down the left-hand side look like where the animal placed its lower teeth while it used its upper teeth to scrape the bark. Here and at other places on this log there were signs of small black bobbles near the tooth marks, as if the animal was actually scraping these off to eat them.
The black bobbles may be a Rosellinia sp fungus. The bark, itself, also seem to be unusually dark and may have been covered in a black crust.
Photos taken in the Wilderness, Whiteknights Park, Reading University grounds, Reading, UK, on 2011-02-05.
Tristram Brelstaff
The black bobbles look more like Eutypa spinosa than Rosellinia sp.
Tristram Brelstaff
The whitish marks down the left-hand side could also be claw marks.
