Author: David

By the Chapel Ash roundabout on the Wolverhampton ring road, there’s a paper-bark birch tree, with its roots protected by a substantial metal grill. Popping up in gaps in that grill were these shaggy inkcap mushrooms.

Lichen growing on the trunks of trees make interesting colours and textures at any time of year. They can be seen more clearly once the trees have lost their foliage.

One of the West Park squirrels started coming towards me, hoping I was going to give it some peanuts. Then it spotted someone with a dog coming from the opposite direction. It turned tail, and started to run for the nearest tree. Once it had climbed high enough to feel safe, it paused to look around.

A front garden with a tree stump, with mushrooms growing on the stump. I’d previously passed the stump a fortnight earlier, and already taken pictures of the fungi. 

Showing over the high garden wall of a house on one of the quiet streets at the back of Tettenhall’s Upper Green, an extreme colour contrast in autumn leaves.

The white spindles in this set which appear to be growing out of bare earth were in West Park. The others, white and yellow were growing together on the same lawn, which was also the lawn with the brown birch bolete (recent post).