Diadem spiders (also known as European garden spiders or as cross spiders) are found outside or sometimes in sheds and garages.
The females are the ones which build the webs. They are larger than the males, especially at this time of year – the breeding season.
At Autherley Junction, the Wolverhampton end of the Shropshire Union Canal. When the canal was build, this will have been the house for the toll collector. The room at the front had windows looking along the canal in both directions, to watch for boats trying to slip by without paying the toll.
One of the butterfly species which did well under the conditions this summer – speckled woods.
Fruit or berries on a dogwood bush changing colours as they ripen.
Pendeford Rockin(or the Narrows) is a short section of the Staffs and Worcs Canal which is barely wide enough for one boat at a time. It is cut through very hard rock, Bromsgrove sandstone.
One boat must have been through recently and slightly misjudged things, leaving a scrape of paint on the stone.
In autumn the leaves of guelder roses (viburnum) turn a bright red matching the glossy berries.