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West Park squirrel pausing, ready to dart after peanuts.

Common funnel caps are medium-sized mushrooms. Pale brown, with a cap which dips down and darkens towards the centre,

They are indeed fairly common, and often found in woodland, like these which were growing in Himley Plantation.

Honey fungus is a very common fungus. It is very damaging economically: it is a parasite of many kinds of trees, killing them when it infests them.

It is very variable in form, probably different several species .

These had a surface which looked roughened.

The first three pictures are of the fungus on a (still) living tree in Baggeridge Country Park; this picture of a felled trunk in the grounds of Himley Hall.

Buttercap mushrooms growing by the footpath which runs along a short section of the ring road near Chapel Ash.

Fly agaric mushroom which only just appeared. It had grown enough for the veil originally surrounding the cap to split, now being the white flecks or “warts”

The bright red isn’t evident in ones which are even more recent.

Still more of the fly agaric mushrooms which have been showing in many spots this year.

These were under trees right by a path in Bantock Park.

The ones shown here had been out for some time in damp weather. Rain washing had muted some of the reds in their caps.

Someone had kicked one over, offering a view of the gills.