David

A rare period of bright sunshine on the ghostly paleness of a pair of snowy waxcaps.

This small species is fairly common in autumn. It is usually seen growing in short grass, which may still, as here, be higher than the mushroom caps.

Looking towards Bridgnorth High Town from the opposite bank of the Severn.

This cobweb had been built in the rotting heart wood of a tree stump in the Wren’s Nest Reserve in Dudley. It was covered in frost earlier this month.

Fly agaric a month ago, its colours faded by repeated rains,especially towards the edge of the cap.

Pictures of the same mushroom as it was just beginning to fade in an earlier post.

A female mallard swimming in one of the patches of open water in a section of the Birmingham Canal which was freezing over in the cold spell in mid-December.

Brown mottlegill mushrooms are small mushrooms, often found in troops on lawns and similar cut grassy areas in the autumn. The centre of the cap is frequently paler than towards the rim.