David

A pied wagtail which has been around West Park recently, perhaps a lone bird. Record shots.

Some of the same wood blewits featured in a post yesterday, seen three days later. The distinctive colour turning to brown, as the mushrooms prove as popular with the local fauna as they are with foodies.

Remains of a hogweed plant, at the lower end of the Barley Field in the Smestow Valley nature Reserve.

Wood blewit mushrooms, growing by the side of Richmond Road. From the colour, some of them must have emerged very recently when I saw them.

The resident muscovy duck, a drake, by the big lake at Perton, having a preen while standing on the shingle.

The first orange peel fungus I’ve noticed this year, on a patch of bare ground by a tree stump carved as an owl at Castleccroft.