Author: David

Widely cultivated – for some years they have even been appearing on British supermarket shelves. This specimen was growing wild on a tree stump in the Fen’s Pool LNR, Dudley.

The bright yellow autumn leaves of one of the gingkoes at the Chapel Ash end of Compton Road, caught against a blue sky before the winds started to denude the tree.

This fungus was growing on a tree near to Meccano Bridge in the Smestow Valley LNR.

This squirrel seemed to by trying to stuff as much food in its mouth as it possibly could.

I wasn’t able to spot what it was eating. For once, it must have been something it had found itself. There was no-one around who could have fed it.

A fairly common mushroom. The cap is depressed towards the centre, so it does indeed resemble a funnel. I didn’t get a picture of that this time, but the funnel effect can be seen in a previous post
of a related species.

The same species of mushroom as the previous post. These were growing in the churchyard at Berkswell. They, too, have lost much of their colour to rain, but seem to have escaped a nibbling.

CORRECTION: identified by Lukas Large as possibly pepper roundhead