Layered cup Peziza varia is one of the so-called cup fungi. Many of them are roughly thimble shaped and roughly thimble sized. Layered cups are neither, if these were typical. They were a couple of inches across and mostly rather flattened.
The bank of the Smestow under the Bridgnorth Road bridge at Compton was a bank of lesser celandines in flower. Looking down from the bridge, this was the best view I could get.
Fairies bonnets, small mushrooms of the Coprinus genus, almost always appear in swarms. These had forced their way through the gap between the pavement and a garden wall.
A cloudless morning earlier this month, a damson tree with some flowers still in bud, and others fully open, seen white against the blue of the sky.
A tawny mining bee had got trapped on the wrong side of a window. After making several attempts to take what it thought was the direct route to where it wanted to go – through the glass – it was taking a rest. After a few seconds to take these shots, I helped it find what was actually the escape route it wanted.
More from the late-March burst of weeds a few inches high with tiny white flowers. Growing by the canal footpath was this bittercress species, possibly hairy bittercress (Cardamine hirsuta).