Pipe club fungus. The guide books have it down as rare, but that may be because they are hard to spot. Until I get down really close to them, they look like the stems of the leaves that fall at the same time of year that the fungus emerges.
Some of a city centre starling flock, seen on a lockdown early Sunday morning a couple of weeks ago. The birds roost in the trees of Dudley street, but had moved off towards the market to avoid work going on in the street. A count of twenty one may have missed one or two more.
Two different species of brittlegill mushrooms, also known as russulas, which were growing on roadside lawns in the same area of quiet residential streets.
A sunny morning recently, with three herons showing themselves, spread along the shore of boating lake island, West Park. All, as usual, studiously avoiding each other.
A single delicate-looking mushroom in the short grass of a lawn on a quiet residential street. Perhaps a stubble rosegill.
A small flock of tufted ducks gather to overwinter on the lake at West Park every year. There’s probably more to come yet, but fifteen or so have already arrived. Here’s a few of them.