Category: David

Birch boletes. Quite large mushrooms, brown, always grow within a few yards of a birch tree. Under the cap, no sign of gills. Instead, a spongy surface with pores through which the spores are released.

It’s probably the last time I’ll retrun to this subject this year, but one more time with pictures of fly agarics. These were earlier this month, different spots in Bantock Park.

Yarrow still flowering earlier this month – a wildflower with a flowering season lasting from early summer into early winter.

A mass of the feathery seeds developing on old man’s beard escaping over a garden fence, lit from behind by early morning sun. A native clematis, often found on hedges and fences.

Mossy bells, tiny brown mushrooms likely to be found on mossy lawns (surprise).

One of the West Park carrion crows, breaking the pattern of black-headed gulls on a fence, and down closer to the water.