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Hawthorn bush which was particularly heavily laden with haws last month, on the edge of a field in the Smestow Valley nature Reserve.

Candlesnuff fungus grows in clusters or rows on dead wood – sometimes on dead wood hidden underground. Less than half an inch high, it can be seen through the winter, unlike most fungi.

A badger stett in Himley Plantation, with two of the entrances right next to each other.

This sett, in West Park, has about a dozen entrances in a small mound of raised earth under s clump of trees.

Buds on a magnolia, developing in the late autumn, before the frosts of winter.

Fairy ring of quite large mushrooms (unidentified species) in the middle of the ring road. The Banks’s brewery office building (now branded Marston’s) in the background.

Tiny fairy inkcap mushrooms, less than half an inch high, yet each one had forced its way up through the tarmac of a pavement.