Category: David

A couple of the black-headed gulls on Tettenhall Upper Green deciding that as I walk across the Green I’m getting a bit too near to where they are searching in the grass for something to eat.

Pictures from another visit to a group of fly agaric mushrooms growing under birch trees in West Park.

These first two are different views of the same individual.

Flat or upturned caps on somewhat older individuals.

Faded (or rather rain-washed) colours, well-nibbled – probably by squirrels. This one had been around still longer.

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