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The holly and the ivy

Holly berries

Merry Christmas!

Ivy berries

Holly berries

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Woodland stream, Sutton Park

Woodland stream

This stream through a wooded section of Sutton Park is far too straight to be convincing.

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Gull on the boating lake rail

Lesser black backed gull

A lesser black backed gull balancing on one leg on the rail around the West Park boating lake.

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Fly agarics by Chapel Ash roundabout

Fly agaric

The toadstool with the colours of Christmas can sometimes be found on the edge of Wolverhampton city centre. These fly agarics grow near a birch tree and almost hidden among canes on the corner of Darlington Street and the ring road.

Fly agaric

Fly agaric

Fly agaric

Fly agaric

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White butterfly

White butterfly

This butterfly was feeding on the flowers in a thistle patch in Sutton Park back in the summer. I had walked most of the way round the park before I saw it, so I didn’t have the energy to wait for it to give me a fuller view of the wings, and so a better chance of working out the species.

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Orangish mushroom

False chanterelle, possibly

Three views of the same unidentified mushroom growing in woodland leaf litter.

False chanterelle, possibly

False chanterelle, possibly

CORRECTION: identified by Lukas Large as possibly false chanterelle