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Amber, I'm not sure what the first one is. It looks completely unfamiliar to me.

The second one could be an oyster mushroom (Pleurotus) or a relative. But without more photos (especially of the upper side), the spore print color, the type of tree, the location, etc., it would be impossible to identify. More info is definitely is going to be required to identify your mushrooms correctly.
 
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Amber, here are some oyster mushrooms that I harvested today from an alder log that I inoculated about 17 months ago. This variety is called "Summer White" and is from Field & Forest. Most wild oysters are more of a grey color.

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oyster mushrooms on alder log
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close up of white oyster muchrooms growing on end of a log
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a harvest of white fungi in a steel collander
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This has been a good month for mushrooms here on the farm. Today I'm drying shiitake (strain WR46) on my drying frame out in the sun- this increases the vitamin D content.
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drying shiitake in the sun to increase the vitamin D content.
 
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There are swathes of these little fellas around my tree field in the darker areas, they've been popping up since the rains came. No idea what they are, but they're quite pretty.

a cluster of little pink mushrooms in a bed of moss and autumn leaves

It's starting to feel autumnal.....
 
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