Author: David

Close-ups of another set of autumn leaves. This time from one of the cherry trees in East Park, lit from behind by a bright sun recently.

These inkcap mushrooms were less than a centimetre high, growing in the short grass in front of the Chestnut Tree pub in Finchfield.

A tiny arachnid, only a few millimeters in size, seemed to have lost one of its right legs.

Rowan (also known as mountain ash) leaves can turn a rich, dark crimson colour in the autumn. These leaves were on a rowan bush by the Birmingham Canal near the Stafford Road.

Catkins start to appear on alders by mid-autumn, before the current year’s seeds have completely ripened.

These pictures show the unripe seeds and undeveloped catkins on the same tree, as they were in mid-October.

Japanese maple by the West Park Southgate just beginning to change colour for the autumn, dwarfed by the tall conifer behind.