David

Botterham Locks are a staircase of three locks between Wombourne and Swindon – just a few hundred yards from the factory making a well-known brand of oven chips.

These earth star fungi were growing only yards from the exit to an underpass crossing Wolverhampton’s ring road.

Despite the busy pedestrian traffic, no-one was giving them a glance.

One of the West Park moorhens coming close to me as it walks to get a piece of bread someone has dropped by the shore of the lake.

Bright red vibernum berries are ignored by birds.

So they stay on the bushes looking decorative even when the leaves have all fallen.

Yet another bird taking advantage of the feeding station at Northycote Farm – a bluetit pecking at a fast disappearing fatball.

When fly agaric caps have flattened, they can look a little like a pizza resting on a prop.

Pictures of this mushroom when the cap was still domed are here.