David

The danger signs around the edge of the lake at West Park are a favoured perching post, here for a black headed gull preening its feathers.

Small mushrooms which were growing through moss and leaf litter in Old Nursery Wood in the Smestow Valley Nature Reserve, these jelly babies are not edible, despite the name.

Heron on the lookout, high in a conifer, on the island in West Park. In the picture showing the whole tree, the bird is just about visible in the branches half way up the trunk.

Bonnet mushrooms (mycenae) are a group of fungi species with bell-shaped caps on the top of narrow, fragile stems. The species can someitmes be hard to distinguish, but there are three different ones in this set: common, nitrous and ivory bonnets.

A tree overlooking the lake and the bandstand at West Park, a favoured gathering point form the pigeons.

Deceiver mushrooms, for once forming a fairy ring, a tree at the centre of the circle.