Category: David

This feeding party of black-headed gulls had a couple of jackdaws as hangers-on. They were spending an unworried Sunday using the Wolves training ground as a dining area; secure in the knowledge that I was the other side of the fence.

I’m not very sure of this identification. This mushroom was all on its own. Clouded agarics normally grow in a ring. Pictured mid-November.

The “beards” are feathery structures which develop as the seeds ripen (top and bottom pictures).

These pictures of seeds at various stages of ripeness were taken at the same time, and are of seeds on different branches of the same plant, a garden plant which is escaping over a wall.

Close-up views, complete with street litter, of some honey fungus. This is a common parasite of trees. It is often found on tree stumps, as here.

These mushrooms have turned black from their original yellowish colour, as seen here
in December.

After a cold night, the frost on these leaves was trapped on the downy growths on their surface.