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Rectory Bank fly agarics

Fly agaric

These were some of fly agarics growing on a grassy bank with birch trees right by the main road in Wordsley.

Fly agaric

Fly agaric

Fly agaric

Fly agaric

Fly agaric

Fly agaric

Fly agaric

Fly agaric

Fly agaric

Fly agaric

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Three waxcap species

Whitish waxcap

Three  different species of waxcap today – indeed possibly a fourth and even maybe a fifth, with the out of focus white and brown capped companions to the orange-coloured mushroom.

Yellowish waxcap

Orangish waxcap

Whitish waxcap

Orangish waxcap

Yellowish waxcap

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Sedgley beacon

Sedgley Beacon

The top of the beacon seen from further along the ridge.

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Small slender mushroom

Small slender mushroom

Growing through the moss on a tree stump. The outline of part of an ivy leaf on the left gives a scale to how tiny this fungus was.

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Buzzard riding a thermal

Buzzard riding a thermal

A buzzard flying one of its regular patrols over the barley field on the Smestow Valley LNR.

Buzzard riding a thermal

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Boating lake island heron

A short video clip of one of the West Park herons which was featured yesterday, its long feathers moving in the wind as it stands staring at the boating lake.