Whilst looking for, and failing to find, a nice stripey Warbler on the St Aldhelms patch, I bumped into this stunning-looking Fungi. Showing a photo to Phil Saunders later that morning, he identified them as King Alfred's Cakes. I am only just starting to look at Fungi and it saved me the trouble of having to figure it out, albeit this species looks like it would have been an easy job to identify it. I must have walked past this Fungi on a number of occasions in the last couple of weeks, without seeing them.
They are a long-lasting Fungi and as a consequence, they provide a home for the caterpillar of the Yellow-striped Bark Moth and the larvae of the Scarce Fungus Weevil.