Boletes are toadstool fungi which have pores rather than gills at the base of the caps, through which to release their pores.
This common bolete is one of the easiest boletes to recognise. The upper surface of the cap appears to crack, revealing pinkish or reddish flesh below.
Frosted leaves, a sycamore key and a tiny web.
But already the new year’s growth is peeping through.
Bunches of keys holding last year’s fruit hang from the same branches of the ash tree which are already showing the buds of the new year’s growth.
Moorhen striding gingerly over the frozen boating lake in West Park.
Even a partial freezing of the West Park boating lake is causing a problem for these birds.
The squirrels of West Park are so used to being fed that it is moot whether they are wild.