David

Another visit to West Park. Once again, one of the semi-resident herons standing not far from the shore of boating lake island. Once again, it didn’t seem to be doing anything particularly. Perhaps it was sunbathing.

Narrow and white, rising less than an inch througgh a mossy front lawn, four or five fruiting bodies of pointed club fungus.

Muscovy drake by the shore of the lake at Perton, its regular hangout.

Lilacscale milkcap mushrooms in the undergrowth by the side of a footpath in Old Nursery wood recently.

All year round, small groups of Canada geese from West Park fly around the west of the city, calling loudly overhead. In autumn, the birds’ instincts say it’s time to fly to mexico for the winter, so their flights are in much larger (and noisier) flocks.

These were part of a group over Bantock Park one morning.

A small patch of long grass in the wildflower meadow at Bantock Park, which spideers had covered in sheet webs. Heavy dew had condensed on the webs, which were then catching the morning sun.