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It’s a (former) watermill with its millpond. It’s by Hyde Mill Lane in Brewood. So I’m guessing that this impressive building is Hyde Mill.

Heavy rain has removed some of the pigment and the warty remains of the veils of these fly agarics. The colour of the domed specimen has been washed away. The mushroom with the upturned cap has a loss of pigment near the rim, and a darkening at the centre.

Snowberries are a garden ornamental which get their name from the whiteness of their cluster of berries – except that some berries have a tinge of pink.

These were growing wild by the canal junction at Aldersley.

Different generations of larval ladybirds and an adult which were on the statue of an angel on one of the graves in Tettenhall churchyard.

Shaggy inkcaps (also known as lawyerswigs) can be found in all but the coldest months. but they are most often found in the autumn fungi flush period. This year they seem to have been even more common than usual.

Some trees, including alders, start producing catkins in the late autumn/winter just as the seeds from the previous set of catkins are ripening.

These were on one of the alders at the edge of the ponds between Wolverhampton Science Park and the Birmingham Canal.