David

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.

Japanese maple by the West Park Southgate just beginning to change colour for the autumn, dwarfed by the tall conifer behind.

Fairies bonnets are tiny inkcap mushrooms which grow in tight clusers. These were at the base of a tree stump just off the main road at Worfield.