David

More of this year’s brown birch boletes.

These had appeared less than a day before they were pictured.

Hawthorn shield bugs are one of the commoner shield bugs. They are seen in the autumn when their preferred food, haws, ripen.

This one was on the leaf of a rose bush. The ones I see never seem to be on hawthorn: in 2010 resting on a wall, and in 2011 on an ivy leaf.

Bracket fungi on a rotten log resting in a pool in Bob’s Brook in the Cotwall End LNR. The pool may be one of the ones created by dams in the brook to make mill ponds when the valley was a hive of mining and quarrying.

The log was too far out to get a clear enough view to identify the fungus species.

Bullrush flower growing close to the footbridge on Wetland Lake.

Tiny flies eating hungrily on Michaelmas daisies on a warm day.

Small group of glistening inkcaps growing through tree litter including a decidedly weathered fallen holly leaf.
The scene made a picture in different shades of the same colour.