St George’s mushrooms, so called because they appear around this time of year. These were just beginning to emerge on an embankment of the Smestow Valley Railway Walk ten days ago. Their caps hadn’t yet spread out to take on “mushroom shape”.
Pair of great crested grebes, the male with a rather scruffy crest.
He was spending a lot of time preening as they swam along.
Toroiseshell butterfly eating from a dandelion in an overgrown garden.
Tortoiseshell butterfly which was concentrating on feeding on the pollen on pussy willow catkins.
Overcast, so these celandines growing by the steep path behind Tettenhall church looked like they were set to stay closed all day.
Woodlouse conveniently at shoulder level as it moved through the moss growing on the top of a wall. It seemed to be nibbling at the moss, or at something on the moss, as it scuttled along.