Category: David

A mass of fungus growing from the base of a tree stump.

Seen on the green at Worfield recently.

The blackened remains of an older fungus were also present near the middle of the stump.

Squirrel standing on the stump of a tree which had been cut down at shoulder level. It seemed totally unconcerned at people walking close by.

One of the many swans on the river Avon in the centre of Stratford.

As the berries on this hawthorn ripen, the lichen growing on the tree forms the cups (or more accurately the ascocarps) which are its fruiting bodies.

Berries growing on garden bushes visible from the pavements.

I liked the combinations of colours, though I had no idea what types of bushes they were.

A red admiral rests on the dried-out stem of an old umbellifer, warming itself in the late-October sun. As it warmed its wings, it showed first their upper- then their undersurface.