The cool (but not freezing) weather with plenty of rain that we’ve been having is when many mushrooms come out to work and play, including the fungi shown here having a wood-rotting party.
Mushroom Maven David Porter tells me that they’re likely part of the Pholiota genus of wood disposers. Species in that genus usually need microscopic inspection for identification, I’ve read.
Among the more interesting terrestrial fungi that also are showing up here lately are what appear to be Chocolate Milky mushrooms (Lactarius lignyotus), which frequently grow under conifers and in mosses:
(Images taken in Brooklin, Maine. on October 8 and 21, 2023.)