Blackening waxcaps turning from yellow to black.
Look for these, and other waxcap species, in short grass.
Waxcaps are a genus of small, often strongly coloured, mushrooms
These blackening waxcaps show on the lawn in front of a block of flats every autumn.
Spider wrapping threads of silk around a hoverfly which had been caught in its web.
The victim had first been carried to the edge of the web.
This action was taking place on vegetation right by the path through Baggeridge Country Park.
Two or three different types of lichen growing on the bark of a sycamore in Bantock Park.
Clump of tiny puffballs which do indeed look like they are covered in spines, nestling between roots at the base of a tree trunk in Bantock Park.
CORRECTION: identified by Lukas Large as possibly scalycaps
Ripening yew berries high in the tree, seen against a cloudless autumn sky.
Fly agarics: one of the most distinctive and most noticeable mushroom species.
I’ve been a regular in West Park for almost forty years, and never seen them there before.
These are from the second patch I’ve seen there this autumn.
It’s been a good season for several fungi species.
Fly agarics are one of the species which have been more widespread and numerous than normal.
They have started appearing a bit earlier than usual as well.
