The tan, almost orange in some lights, top, which was just a very slightly felty when magnified led me towards this less common Trametes species, Trametes ochracea, the Ochre Bracket, one that I keep on hoping to find, but rarely get even a hint of.
Compared to Turkeytail, Trametes versicolor, the clearly thicker individual brackets in fused (not separate) tiers, creamy (not white) shaded pores with well-defined margins about 3-4 (not 4-5) per mm, white flesh with no dark line below the tomentum, and fairly broad attachment making the fruiting bodies quite difficult to pull away from the substrate supported this. This specimen was found on the cut end of a large Birch log in Styants Wood, but the species actually has a wide range of deciduous hosts, including Oak and Beech.
However by this time of year the mushroom fly larvae and others have had a field day and these brackets were in poor condition with a lot of slime and rot apparent. Measuring spore shape and size would help to confirm this less common species of Trametes, so this has to remain just a possible.
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