Author: David

Views of the Clee Hills from a mile or so east of the Severn.

This fungus formed a mound-like structure yards from the Albert Road entrance to West Park.

CORRECTION, August 2013. This is NOT a sulfur polypore, but rather the not very similar looking giant polypore.

I was stone cold sober when I made the misidentification.

Pictures of this year’s return of the fungus to be posted soon.

Compare the colour to that of the frog featuring a few days ago, whose picture was taken in almost the same spot.

A common sight in hedgerows in the early autumn, a wild arum with its distinctive bright red berries on the end of an erect stalk.

A large bracket fungus seen from below (top) and just about from above.

This bird, probably a well-grown chick, was one of a family of great created grebes on a large pool by the Marsh lane LNR in Hampton in Arden, Solihull.

This pair were on Swan Pool, Sandwell Valley, a week or so later.

One of the same pair, which has just caught a fish.

The pair’s three young chicks. They are much younger than the bird in the first picture – perhaps a second brood.