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Pipe club fungus looking like an elegant miniature horn. This is what the fungus had looked like six weeks and then two weeks previously.

Wrinkled club fungus looks like short stalks which have been soaked too long in water. They are common, but often hidden even in short grass, from summer to winter.

Sometimes found as an area with clumps of fruiting bodies, such as the one here near the tearooms in West Park. At other times there may just be a few individual fruiting bodies or smaller clumps, each a couple of feet from the others. The fungi growing among fallen leaves were like this, growing on the grassy island in Paget Road.

Berries and leaves from the same cotoneaster bush featured yesterday, this time from a morning where I got out before the frost had melted.

The reds in the leaves almost match the reds of the berries, contrasting with the yellow patches in the leaves. All the colours are made more saturated by the film of water on the bush, the residue left by rapidly-melting overnight frost.

Chickens, looking safe and happy, on the top landing of one of the sets of steps connecting High and Low Towns in Bridgnorth. Escapees from the house which is just out of shot.

Magpie inkcaps looking distinctly under the weather after being exposed to a couple of frosty nights.

They had looked like this when they were fresher at the start of the cold snap.