Category: David

I don’t know if either of these birds was the cockerel which died after vandals ran rampage at Northycote Farm and allowed a fox access to the livestock.

Noel the turkey, featured in a September post, was a victim.

Cortinus growing in short grass in West Park. Member of a genus of fungi which emerge with a veil (or cortina) which protects the gills of the young mushroom.

It’s not hard to see why the spectacular autumn colours of some cotinus (or smoke bush) leaves make it a popular garden ornamental.

These birch brittlegills, growing under a silver birch in Bantock Park, seem to have been popular with a squirrel or rodent looking for a snack to nibble.

Check this recent post for birch brittlegills in the same patch before anything started to eat them.

A young-looking foal and a group of adult horses in a field leading up the slope up the Beacon Centre for the Blind side of Sedgley Beacon.

Funnel caps are a common mushroom found from summer through to the end of autumn. These (and several other species) were growing under the conifers and birches by the edge of the Pitch and Putt.

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