Category: David

This patch of honey fungus was showing the signs of having been around for some time: cracked, contorted, and slightly nibbled away.

It was growing around a tree stump in Bantock Park.

A yarrow still in flower recently by the canal at Castecroft.

A cluster of warty puffballs were growing on a tree stump.

The fungi were very small, and so tightly grouped they were squeezing into one another.

One of the Smestow Valley buzzards riding a thermal over Barley Field as it gains height to go off hunting.

Little grebes return to the canal near Compton to make their winter quarters every year. They prefer to stay near the bank opposite the tow path.

The frequently dive and completely submerge themselves on the hunt for small fish. This one wasn’t fishing, but drinking the water it was swimming in.

Glistening inkcaps grow as clusters of mushrooms on dead wood. Often, as here, the wood is buried and invisible.