Author: David

The male flowers of a hazel bush, with a leaf bud visible where they fork off from the main twig.

The remains of one of the plants from last year.

One of the sets of antlers and the hobby horse head as used in the annual Abbot’s Bromley Horn Dance, held on the Monday which falls between September 6th and September 12th (inclusive).
The antlers have been carbon dated as originating in the eleventh century; the hobby horse is a modern copy of a medieval original.

The antlers and horse can be seen in the village church when not in use.

This unusually-proportioned mushroom was growing near a bramble bush in Hawthorn Wood, a patch of woodland in the Smestow Valley LNR off Hordern Road. Despite its distinctive shape, I haven’t managed to identify its species.

These pictures were taken in Parkdale, off the Tettenhall Road, about an hour before an early December sunrise.

These bunches of mistletoe were growing on trees within the ring road in the centre of Coventry. The one above was on a tree between the university and the cathedrals.

These bunches were near the top end of Warwick Road. The Greyfriars spire can be seen in the background below.