Author: David

Unlike the males with their bright blue bodies, the females are green. Perhaps I find them harder to spot because they are better camouflaged.

The mottled pattern near the apex of the cap may be the remnants of a veil. The radial corrugated stripes are unusual. This mushroom was growing unnoticed in one of the large plant boxes on the platform of Birmingham International railway station.

There are three or four different individuals represented in this series of pictures.

Seen fluttering near streams in, surprise, May. At the very end of that month, this one landed on the protective glass on Wye bridge, Hereford.

These, too, are pictures of males.They were two of several on or over a patch of grass leading down to the river Wye from Castle Green in the middle of Hereford.

These inconspicuous buds will later develop into privet flowers.