Categories
David

Blackening waxcap on a lawn

Blackening waxcap on a lawn

Blackening waxcap which had well and truly blackened. I noticed it on the front lawn of a house near the Castlecroft shops.

Categories
David

Autumnal tree, East Park

Autumnal tree, East Park

One of the trees on the edge of East Park, beginning to change colour last month.

Categories
David

Compton Park water feature

Bridge over the Graiseley brook

Pool with a brand-new wooden bridge over it.

The pool is on the course of the Graiseley brook, previously culverted, shortly before it joins the Smestow. It has been created as a centrepiece of the housing estate being developed on part of Compton Park in association with the upgrading of the Wolves training ground.

Categories
David

Fly agarics almost hidden under grass

Fly agaric almost hidden under grass

Fly agarics growing beside a footpath popular with joggers and dog-walkers.

Fly agaric almost hidden under grass

These were hard to spot under the grass. Others had been more prominent, so they had been kicked over.

Categories
David

Holly berries rapidly ripening

Holly berries rapidly ripening

Only three days separated the unripe berries previously posted
from the ones pictured here.

Despite the less than glorious weather the berries had reddened considerably.

A web connecting the holly leaves is holding drops of the recent rain.

Categories
David

Half-grown moorhen chick

Half-grown moorhen chick

Although this moorhen chick on the canal at Compton is half-grown, and should probably have learned to be wary of humans. It swam towards me.

Half-grown moorhen chick

Perhaps it was expecting to be fed.

Half-grown moorhen chick