Category: David

Earthball which has been split open, with the spores all spread out in the immediate vicinity instead of being dispersed.

This bullrush leaf is undergoing a more muted colour change than those of deciduous trees, but not all autumn shades are gaudy.

Old man’s beard with the seeds just beginning to ripen.

The long green strands will become the white feathery material vaguely resembling a beard when the seeds are ready to be dispersed.

Honey fungus: very variable in form, but its presence always indicating wood is been rotted.

Its normal habitat is the base of trees which it is killing.

Here it was by one of the Walking for Health distance markers in West Park.

Magpie on the q.v. on the edge of one of the lawns in West Park.

Suspicious glance at me.

Then off in search of food.

Brown roll-rim are common mushrooms of wooded areas, growing in association with many species of deciduous or coniferous trees.

These were on a patch of tree-fringed short grass at the city centre end of Willenhall Road.