David

Seven spot ladybird which had chosen to rest on the edge of the lid of a household waste dustbin.

Goldfinch having an extended session eating sunflower kernels in a bird seed feeder.

Candle snuff fungus, looking a little like wicks from part-used candles, grow on dead wood.

These were on a felled trunk at Bantock Park, and a stump by the Railway Walk at Newbridge.

Island in the larger lake at Perton. Heron by the shoreline, staring intently at the water, alert for any prey.

Single mushroom, one of the milk cap species, by the main road just outside the Perton estate.

Growing in a front garden by a main road, with ground level inside the garden wall conveniently at waist height, troops of tiny and delicate-looking common bonnet mycenae.