Category: David

By November, very few plants still have flowers.

Those that do, like ivy, attract a lot of hungry insects.

Warm sunny mornings are the best time for spotting butterflies like this red admiral.

Mulberry leaves against a sunny autumn sky. More nature photography from the comfort of the terrace of the Dirty Duck at Stratford on Avon.

Slug determinedly climbing up the trunk of one of the trees in the wood at Northycote Farm.

Like many mushrooms, these fly agarics started out with domed caps which then flattened: the colour also faded.

They are pictured here four days after the photos in an earlier post.

Candlesnuff fungus growing, apparently from the ground, in a wooded area.

It will actually have been growing on buried wood, perhaps the root of a one-time tree.

I was attracted by the rose hip and the acorn which had fallen right by the fungus.

Russulas growing through leaf litter.

They were probably common yellow russulas, but they were old, faded and nibbled.

They were growing in the wooded area in the grounds of Compton Hospice.