Category: David

Small yellow mushrooms barely rising above the rain-soaked grass of lawns in front gardens recently. Two different species of mushrooms, neither identified.

CORRECTION: the ,ore robust species identified by Lukas Large as probably earthy powdercaps

Heard but not seen one or more of the Wolverhampton ring-necked parakeets recently. Then, yesterday, a definite sighting.

The bird pictured in this set flew across the canal at tree-top level. It came, perhaps, from Newbridge wood, and landed it the top of a tall canalside tree in Crowther Road wood. It then started making the loud parakeet squawks for about a minute.

It became apparent that these noises were directed at a buzzard which was also perched nearby, when the birds both took off flying towards Newbridge, the parakeet chasing the buzzard.

Tall tree with a big bunch of mistletoe by the River Avon, Stratford, seen silhouetted against the skyline with a newly-risen sun.

Clump of honey fungus growing on the fallen trunk of the tree which the fungus had probably killed. These weere by the footpath connecting canal towpath and Railway Walk by the Meccano Bridge in the Smestow Valley Nature Reserve.

Leaves on a vine in a front garden: different parts of the leaf turning to different autumn colours leaving a symmetrical pattern.

Pied wagtail striding boldly across the paving surrounding the canal basin in Stratford on Avon.