Many fungi produce their fruiting bodies primarily in the winter and not necessarily in the places one would expect.
The toadstools above are meadow waxcaps (Hygrocybe pratensis) found growing in a quite shady area of ancient woodland - wrong time and wrong place, but this species is sometimes found in these situations late in the year.
Not far away I found a couple of large brackets of Dyer's mazegill (Phaeolus schweinitzii), a species that grows on conifers - in this instance on a living larch tree.
