Some of the Japanese acers in West Park, their leaves changing colour.
Whoever planted them seems to have ensured that they are of different species or varieties, so as to give different autumnal colours.
These pictures were all taken on the same morning at the start of the month.
Small stagshorn fungus, tiny and brightly coloured, grows in damp open ground. Yellow stagshorn looks similar but larger, and grows in woodland.
Ripe holly berries on a sunny morning, glistening because they were still wet from overnight rain.
Puffball which had lost most of its spores and was beginning to split open.
Berries growing on one of the dogwood bushes by the larger pool at Perton.
Yellow stagshorn fungus only grows to a couple of inches tall, but it is usually a bright, almost fluorescent, yellow – though the colour can range from orange to almost white.
This was one of several clumps growing on the ground in the wood at Northycote Farm.