Wildlife from Wolverhampton and nearby
Autumn changes in an acer on a quiet residential street. In mid-October (first picture) most of the leaves had already turned bright red. Ten days later the colours had perhaps got a little deeper, with leaf fall accelerating. Another fortnight left the tree almost bare. The pictures are close-ups of some of those leaves still clinging on.
Went back ten days later to the site of the cup shaped orange fungi. In the mean time they had begun to develop showing that they were just the well-known orange peel fungus.
Fungi growing in short grass under a beech by Richmond Road. From their shape and size, they looked like cup fungi. But the colour was unexpected. Many cup fungi are an inconspicuous fawn. One species is bright red: scarlet elf cups. Could these be something rarer?
There’s not many plants flowering in November, even in gardens set out to have interest throughout the year. This old fashioned weigela is visible across a garden wall.
A single fly agaric mushroom standing out over short grass by the perimeter path in West Park. There had been others, but they had been kicked over and stamped on.
Goldfinch busy eating seeds on a bird feeder outside a block of flats, not quite showing its head.
A blackening waxcap, caught as it was just about beginning to change colour. Right next to it there was a snowy waxcap.
A row of ginkgoes, planted along the pavement of Compton Road, opposite the former Eye Hospital. A welcome distraction from the continuing dereliction of the hospital.
Brown leaves and blue sky and the glossy black feathers of a carrion crow high in a tree.
An outbreak of small bracket fungi on the trunk of a tree which had been felled by the Railway Walk at Newbridge. It could be turkey tail, but the colours don’t look quite right.