Razor strop fungus, otherwise known as birch polypores, grow as bracket fungi on (surprise) birch trees. Back in the dim and distant past of a hundred years ago, they were used to give the final sharpening to cut-throat razors.
Something had begun eating these, which were growing on a fallen birch trunk in Himley Plantation.
Little grebe which seems to be settling down for its winter quarters on the canal right by the Wildside Centre.
The bird had just caught a fish which was too big to swallow. It kept jerking its head to throw the fish back in the water, then diving under to catch it again. Perhaps it was trying to see if it would get it down its throat if it could get a different grip.
This squirrel quickly realised that I wasn’t one of the mugs ready to give it peanuts. So it turned away and began prospecting through the leaf litter for some it had buried earlier.
Jay high in a sycamore tree, systematically trying to eat as many of the seeds as it could.
Oak leaves at the end of a twig, changing colour before they were blown off the tree.
Singing moose on one of the drinks stalls on Birmingham Christmas Market. For the past couple of years, it’s been showing its age.
Now it looks like its been restored, and had a new sound system. So it;s back swaying its head, opening and closing its mouth as it sings and speaks, in English and in German, adding to the atmosphere of the market.