Category: David

Small tree-lined pond on Turner’s Field in the Smestow Valley Nature Reserve. A bough of the willow which is the host of the fungus in the previous post is stretching across the water on the left of the picture.

Underside of a pale bracket fungus which was growing near the fork in the trunk of an impressively large willow tree.

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.