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It’s been a good year for fungi, and for waxcaps in particular. These butter waxcaps were one of three different yellowish waxcaps in the same area of roadside lawn.

Rainbow, one recent early morning. For reasons I can’t now remember, the pictures are all of the left arc of the curve.

Female pheasant spotted near the West Park Conservatory in mid-October. It was still in the same general area a month later.

It’s been a good autumn for mushrooms, and a good autumn for waxcaps, tiny, often brightly coloured mushrooms which can be spotted in lawns and other areas of short grass.

These are snowy waxcaps, which I noticed in various locations as I walked for exercise.

The crowds attracted (so far) to this winter’s offering of bird feeders is dominated by house sparrows queuing for the fat balls.

Bright red with white speckles when recently emerged, sometimes paler with speckles washed away after being rained on, once again these are fly agaric mushrooms from various locations.