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Pictures taken over the course of four days showing the developments of a group of mushrooms growing on a garden path.

At first the mushrooms had a tan cap, with a paler stem.

Later the cap faded to a duller pale brown, exaggerated here by the changing lighting conditions.

Notice the holes in the caps where slugs have been nibbling.  Tiny slugs are on the caps in some of the pictures.

Small new mushrooms, complete with the stronger cap colour, continued to pop up in the middle of the patch.

The path was covered in wood mulch to suppress weeds. It is possible that the mushrooms had been brought in with this mulch.

The mushrooms were probably bonnet mycenae, a common fungus,

Close-ups of another set of autumn leaves. This time from one of the cherry trees in East Park, lit from behind by a bright sun recently.

These inkcap mushrooms were less than a centimetre high, growing in the short grass in front of the Chestnut Tree pub in Finchfield.

A tiny arachnid, only a few millimeters in size, seemed to have lost one of its right legs.

Rowan (also known as mountain ash) leaves can turn a rich, dark crimson colour in the autumn. These leaves were on a rowan bush by the Birmingham Canal near the Stafford Road.

Catkins start to appear on alders by mid-autumn, before the current year’s seeds have completely ripened.

These pictures show the unripe seeds and undeveloped catkins on the same tree, as they were in mid-October.