Category: David

Squirrel prowling along the ground in West Park. Some of the fallen leaves from the maple in the previous two posts are scattered around among more numerous ones from an oak.

Squirrel clinging to one of the branches of the West Park maple featured in the previous post.

Bright red autumn colours of the leaves of a maple tree growing near the West Park lake recently.

One for Halloween: fungus with the ghoulish name of dead man’s fingers. It’s quite common in the autumn, usually growing, as here, on dead or dying wood.

Young Gloucester old spot sow at Northycote Farm, rooting in the soil right up to the full length of its snout. The ground right across the enclosure showed signs of earlier rooting activity.

Patch of cyclamen flowering as it grew on a compost heap, the seeds presumably having been caught up in some compost when it was thrown out.