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Flowers of a pale-coloured fuchsia in one of the front gardens in East Castle Street, Bridgnorth, where there is usually something attractive to see whatever the time of year.

Mycenae mushrooms growing among the leaf litter by a footpath along the Severn at Bridgnorth recently.

Heron perched on a tree on one of the islands in West Park lake, standing on one leg and looking steadily to its left.

Patch of redlead roundhead mushrooms growing on wood mulch by the River Severn at Bridgnorth.

This is originally an Australian fungus, uncommon there. It was first reported in Britain in 1960, in Somerset, then subsequently mainly in southern England. It’s spreading through England carried by wood mulch.

One of the West Park squirrels pausing to scratch its flank with its back leg before it carries on searching through the short grass, possibly looking for some food it had buried.

Moss growing thickly on one of the fallen trunks in Himley Plantation. Rising above the rest of the plant are the stalks topped by capsules containing the spores, looking like a miniature forest.