A buzzard flying one of its regular patrols over the barley field on the Smestow Valley LNR.
David
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.
Who’s been nibbling my mushroom?
Another mushroom that something has taken a chunk out of,
More birch boletes
Again growing close to their invariable host, a birch tree. The mushroom in the lower picture has already provided a meal for some creature.
West Park herons
These two birds were on opposite sides of the island in the boating lake recently.
This one on the railing still seemed to be in exactly the same position when I went back a couple of hours later in the early afternoon.
Gatekeeper butterfly
More pictures I’ve dug out from my “consider” pile to break the preponderance of fungi at this time of year. This gatekeeper was feeding on thistle flowers in Sutton Park back in August.
