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View looking over the small pond at the top end of Turner’s Field in the Smestow Valley Local Nature Reserve.

Adult heron standing high in one of the conifers on an island in the West Park lake.

Common inkcaps growing in a patch of short grass at the bqck of the new Sainsbury’s store on the edge of Wolverhampton city centre. Some of the mushrooms had only recently emerged, others had more or less completely deliquesced: as they lose their spores, the caps turn to a black mush from the rim inwards. Apparently this helps the spores disperse more effectively.

Northycote Farm is to concentrate on keeping smaller animals as part of Wolverhampton Council’s cuts. Hopefully that won’t mean the magnificent ond popular Gloucester old spot pigs meeting the same fate as the Hereford cattle.

An ugly milk cap mushroom growing in Himley Plantation. It isn’t one of those fungi which could plausibly be called beautiful by any means, but neither is it one ofthe ugliest either. Does it get its name from its colours, which are good for hiding it among the debris on the ground in an autumn wood.

Japanese acer leaves turning their vivid autumnal colours. Two of the pictures in this set are leaves from one of the several Japanese acers in West Park, the others of a tree by the entrance of the church which lies opposite one of the park’s gates.