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Yet another cluster of honey fungus, these, growing on the pavement by a busy road, were even more weather worn.

Just a few yards from where the greylag geese were feeding, a sandy beach where a lone goosander was busy preening. It was probably a juvenile.

We went back the next day. Heavy rain overnight meant the sandy beach had disappeared, as has the goosander and the geese.

Another honey fungus at the base of a tree, this time in West Park. These have been out for some days, and show signs of aging.

I leaned over the parapet of the English Bridge at Shrewsbury to get these shots of a small flock of greylag geese busy feeding in the river.

Honey fungus at the base of a roadside tree stump, the internal rot it caused almost certainly the reason the tree needed to be felled. These fruiting bodies looked to have been freshly appeared.

The Severn at Shrewsbury attracts, among others, plenty of ducks, geese … and cormorants. At any time of year, cormorants can be seen flying up or down the river and fishing in the water.

There are often two or three of them high in a tall chestnut tree by the Kingsland Bridge over the river, keeping watch or stretching their wings to dry the feathers after fishing.