David

Once more from the recently pedestrianised area in Wolverhampton city centre, fungi taking advantage of the mulch. These yellow mushrooms seemed almost to be glowing as the sun lit them up.

They’d cleared some of the vegetation on the shore of the larger lake at Perton since my last visit, but the preferred heron perching place is still one where it’s awkward to find gaps between the branches of the trees on the shore to get a clear photograph.

At the opposite end of the same street where the mushrooms in yesterday’s post were, another are of vegetation with wood chip mulch. Two different types of fungi here, peeping out under the leaves.

I think this rat was returning after having a drink from the water in the West Park lake. It was walking fairly slowly back to the cover of the shrubs, then it noticed me watching it, and put on a burst of speed.

A few minutes while shopping spent looking at the vegetation planted in the recently pedestrianised area in Wolverhampton city centre. Still lots of mushrooms growing on the wood chip mulch well after the autumn fungi flush had pretty much petered out elsewhere.

These, possibly common rustgills, were all growing on the same patch of mulch, in the bed at the less frequented end of the street.

A male blackbird searching under frosted leaves in one of the short grass areas of West Park, finding things to eat.