Category: David

This is probably a hawthorn shield bug.

This apple tree with a layer of windfalls on the ground is growing on what I presume is the village green at Burnhill Green.

Pictured yesterday, with the last of the crop still on the tree.

One of several species of mushrooms which depends on a symbiotic relationship with a birch tree, so is only found immediately near birches.

The rich reds of the berries and greens of the leaves: it can only be holly. The upper picture also has a small inconspicuous cricket – it’s on the upper edge of the leaf below the berries.

When they are fully out, earth stars look like some kind of alien flower.

At an earlier stage, their relationshop to puffballs is more obvious.

This mushroom had obviously already provided a good meal for something.