Author: David

In contrast with the mushrooms in the previous post, these Waxcaps are further along the process of losing their yellow.

Waxcaps – tiny mushrooms which are bright yellow when they first appear, and gradually turn black.

These not yet at full height.

Just showing traces of beginning to turn colour.

Snail on the leaf of a bramble at the edge of the woods at Perton.

The crop of these ornamental rosehips is one of many which has done well this year.

These were growing on one of the bushes around Perton Pool, and were still wet after heavy overnight rain.

Female cross spider: previously featured when her web was in a more disturbed location.

She is getting bigger as egg-laying time approaches. In view of the current hysteria in the press, she is harmless, except to the small flies which get trapped in her web.

Unidentified fungus growing in the stump of a tree in a garden right by the pavement on Compton Road.

These were the best views I could get, leaning over the garden wall.

Cock with iridescent feathers which was spending a morning resting in a corner of Penkridge churchyard, in a spot backing on to Church Farm.

Tranquil-looking pool at Tong.

Hard to imagine from the picture that the busy A41 is right behind the hedge, with a constant stream of traffic, much of it heavy lorries.

Bracket fungus growing on one of the trees on the edge of Gospel Oak Common. It was possibly Lenzites betulina.

Small puffball in short grass providing food, perhaps for a squirrel.

Sandstone bridge which carries a lane over the Penk.

The bridge crosses the river just upstream from Penkridge. It was built in the eighteenth century, and is Grade II listed.

Magpie in one of the trees on Tettenhall Upper Green. It seemed to be under the impression that I wanted to grab whatever it was that it was eating.