David

Honey fungus, very common, and a very common cause of the death of trees.

Bright red on the caps of a pair of fly agaric mushrooms under a hedge in Bantock Park.

Bright red flower on a poppy blooming in October. Growing by a verge in the Smestow Valley Nature Reserve, Newbridge.

Spindle fruit, with bright orange seeds which emerge from a pink covering. On these, the seeds were just starting to show.

Dock bug resting, not on dock but on a nettle leaf

Jay, possibly a young bird, which had just landed in a nearby tree as we were walking through the Paddock in the Smestow Valley Nature Reserve.