Post originally scheduled for publication in March, displaced at the time of lockdown .
Once again the river at Bridgnorth was high. Two male goosanders were swimming by the upstream tip of the Bylet, one eager for offerings of bread.
The female was on a pool formed where the water had overflowed onto the Bylet, before she was joined by her mate, and they headed to the mainstream as a pair again.
Post scheduled for publication in March, displaced at the time of lockdown.
Butterbur flowering near the Smestow Brook, in the Paddock at Newbridge.
Wrinkled club fungus growing among short grass surrounded by fallen leaves.
Robust-looking support threads holding spiders’ webs festooned on the anti-climb structure on a pipe crossing a side-arm of the canal.
Another plant late flowering this year, a clematis. The more extreme close-ups on a day when the afternoon sun was lighting the flowers showily.
Giant puffball, which was indeed impressively big, growing on an ivy-covered tree trunk in Hawthorn Wood.