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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.

Artist’s palette fungus, a bracket fungus, with a fallen leaf. Feeds on, and harms, living wood, often of beech trees. The fanciful name id die to the way the fungus colour eventually darkens where it has been scratched, so that drawings can be made on its surface.

Carrion crow prospecting in a patch of short grass by Henwood Road recently.

Fruits ripening on a camellia growing in one of the front gardens in East Castle Street, Bridgnorth.