Category: David

Tiny mushrooms, Himley Plantation. The tightly clustered group were growing on a fallen trunk, the more scattered individuals on a still standing tree. They may have been pinkedge bonnets (Mycena capillaripes).

Lots of bright vibernum (guelder rose) berries glistening in the sunlight. They look like they should be tempting for hungry birds, but they seem to get ignored. Already, some are shrivelling and rotting on the bush.

A mass of mushrooms growing from a moss-covered fallen tree trunk in Himley Plantation. iNaturalist IDed them as sheathed woodtufts (Kuehneromyces mutabilis)

Two squirrels which were busy chasing each other around on the ground during my last visit to Himley Plantation. When my path got too close, they retreated up the same tree, so the chase was probably not a territorial dispute.

Delicate pink mushrooms – rosy bonnets (Mycena rosea) – growing in Himley Plantation, just yards from the spookier forms of some dead man’s fingers.

Back in the summer, this fallen bough in West Park lake was the favourite posing place of the resident turtle. It’s somewhere deep in the mud, having its long winter sleep. The bough now left for the gulls to squabble over the limited standing room.