Category: David

Sulfur tuft mushrooms apparently growing in soil. Actually, this fungus grows in wood, and can often be found part way up tree trunks. These are probably coming from a former root hidden in the ground.

Magpie on a garage roof, keeping an eye out for something to eat and to check whether I am a threat.

Tall mature ash tree near the edge of Coppice Wood blow down in the mid-October strong winds. I was told that when it fell it originally stretched across the road, and that several people had been walking dogs in the wood just before it fell.

High up (before the fall) there was a bracket fungus growing from the trunk. Perhaps it had helped to weaken the tree.

Seeds at the end of one of the twigs of a rhododendron bush opposite the entrance to Bantock House.

Roll rims are a common mushroom. Age and splitting of the cap had given these a complex shape.

There’s always birds attracted to the feeding station at Northycote Farm. Last time I went it was this couple of greenfinches.