David

I don’t know how they fold their wings like that, but this is a common plume moth.

I disturbed it, as it was inconspicuously holed up for the day on my bike. It fluttered, only for a short distance, and landed on the top of a garden fence.

Fingers of fungus, bright yellow and curling, similar in height to the fronds of the moss they were growing beside. These were small stagshorn on one of the fallen logs in Himley Plantation.

Waterlilies on the pond in Fowler’s Park. In mid-September, when these pictures were taken, the flowers had not yet opened, though they were beginning to go over on some other waters locally.

White fibrecap mushrooms – the ones I notice always seem to be growing on wood chip mulch. These were on the edge of an unmetalled road near the Perton estate.

Lots of boletes kicked over (they may have had a better chance of surviving if they hadn’t been growing under trees right outside a junior school). Every one, including this small selection, covered in mould, quite likely bolete mould.

One last set of pictures from the garden of Moseley Old Hall, seen on Heritage Open Day last month. One colourful spot despite the time of year was a border of annual clary, bright in its various shades.