Category: David

Fairies’ bonnets, also called trooping crumblecaps, tiny inkcap mushrooms. Despite their size, here they are showing their power to break through the pavement.

Tufted ducks and shovellers. Every year small flocks of both species of ducks gather on the West Park lake every winter.

Small mushrooms growing in short grass. Some had been kicked over. With their reddish-brown caps and scaly stems, they may have been earthy powdercaps.

Robin on low vegetation right by the footpath across Compton Rough, looking round and watching me,constantly alert.

Fungus growing on a short piece of fallen branch by Compton Lock.

A little grebe on the lower pool at Perton.

It seemed to be hanging out with one of the the groups of mallards. When I first saw it, I actually thought it might be an untimely duckling.

It was also fishing in an unusual way. Instead of diving, submerging completely, it was just dipping its head under the water. It was coming up with something and eating it, but I was too far away to see what the prey was.