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Growing on the same lawn as the wrinkled club fungi, a trooping funnel cap. As the name implies, these often grow in clusters, but this one was on its own.

Growing on a lawn, and just sticking up higher than the grass, some wrinkled club fungi. They appear in the same area every autumn.

Female house sparrows feeding on a fatball feeder on a freezing cold day. This was my first try at filming and editing in portrait format using a mobile phone.

I thought I’d left my setup well away from the birds’ perches and flight paths, but events proved me wrong. Usually, the feeder attracts a few titmice, an occasional dunnock, but mostly a mob of sparrows jostling for access. The brief bursts of activity recorded here were the only events in a half hour which was much quieter than normal.

A tufted duck male heading towards the middle of the West Park lake earlier this month.

It was then one of the few tufties on the lake. Number have now started to rise as more birds joint the flock to use the park as a refuge over the winter.

After heavy overnight rain, the deliquescing caps of these shaggy inkcaps were glistening in the morning sunlight.

Another of my occasional experiments trying to teach myself to use video editing software. This one is a slideshow putting together some stills of magpie inkcap mushrooms, with a soundtrack of soothing music.

The individual pictures of these distinctive black and white fungi have all previously appeared in old posts on this site – some date back as long ago as 2013. They were growing at various sites in the west midlands.