Shaggy parasols are one of the larger British fungi. These are fairly freshly-emerged before their caps spread to take on the parasol shape.
In this one the outer layer hasn’t even started to divide to give the shaggy appearance.
They come up around this time of year, often repeating in the same area.
These were in West Park. Pictures from nearby in previous years are here, here and here.
Sunlight catching a spider’s web covered in water after rain. Miniature rainbows in the drops looked like hundreds of tiny jewels.
Ripening seeds on a plantain stalk. The surface of the canal near Swindon, out of focus, provides a near-uniform background.
Views of a single solitary wood mushroom.
Growing in the garden of Wightwick Manor – right at the far edge of the wood.
Group of clustered toughshanks growing on the floor of the woodland at Wightwick Manor earlier this month.
Gatekeeper butterfly with ragged wings resting on flattened grass in Barley Field at the end of last month.