A mixed flock of black headed and lesser black backed gulls which regularly rest up on the local playing fields.
A flock of jackdaws are increasingly prospecting the same area.
The boldest of the jackdaws were walking in the midst of the gulls.
A rose growing on the outside wall of the one-time lock keeper’s cottage at Wightwick Lock last weekend.
Leaves changing colour on a maple in a front garden in Castlecroft.
I couldn’t decide which picture I liked best.
Spiderswebs seem to become more noticeable in the autumn. This one was catching the sun just after dawn.
Oak roll rims are mushrooms which often (but not invariably) grow near to oak trees.
They have a dull brown cap, and yellower gills, stems and flesh. As they come up they have a domed cap, but as they grow older the rim rises above the centre.
Trees begin to develop their flowers early, some of them even before winter has set in.
A birch tree in the field behind Compton Lock was already showing catkins before the middle of October.