Clump of clouded agarics (also known as clouded funnel) growing together in Himley Plantation recently. The management of the wood by the Woodland Trust encourages a wide variety of fungi species there, and autumn is normally the season when the greatest variety can be found at the same time.
As I was taking pictures of the fungi on one of the fallen tree trunks in Himley Plantation, this robin was darting about a couple of yards away.
Included in this set are pictures of several species of mycena mushrooms, fungi with small fruiting bodies.
Many of the hard to distinguish types grow on dead wood, including all of these which I noticed on visits to Himley Plantation.
Stump by one of the paths on the Pendeford Mill Nature Reserve, carved to have a face. A bracket fungus, which probably caused the tree to need felling, breaking out in patches on the stump.
The bright red of ripening yew “berries” contrasting with the dark green of the evergreen leaves. What looks like a berry is actually a modified cone with a single seed inside, surrounded by a succulent aril to tempt birds to eat it and so deposit the seed well away from the tree. These were on one of the Wesst Park yews.
One of the Northycote Farm hens, perched on the rim of a metal bucket. The dull bronze colour of the feathers turned to a green iridescence where they caught the sun.