David

Squirrels, or just possibly the same squirrel seen on two different occasions, by the Railway Walk at Newbridge.

Rufous milkcap mushrooms, probably. They were on a front lawn, so I didn’t actually check by breaking one to see if a milky liquid was produced.

Another small sample of birds coming to garden feeders.

The so-called Lady Godiva’s Cross by the south wall of Penn Church, with two different kinds of lichens growing on the stonework.

It’s the base of a preaching cross, dating from late Saxon times, rediscovered in 1912. There’s no direct evidence of a connection with Lady Godiva, but it’s plausible. Penn was one of her many manors, and was reputed as a donor to many religious foundations throughout the midlands.

As winter comes on, a monkey puzzle (araucaria) tree in a front garden was covered in what looked like newly emerging flowers.

Puffballs, possibly umber-brown puffballs, growing on a front lawn on a quiet residential street. The hole the spores come out of wide open on most of the balls.