Candle snuff on stump

Candle snuff on stump

Candle snuff fungus, looking a little like wicks from part-used candles, grow on dead wood.

Candle snuff on stump

These were on a felled trunk at Bantock Park, and a stump by the Railway Walk at Newbridge.

Alert heron, Perton

Alert heron, Perton

Island in the larger lake at Perton. Heron by the shoreline, staring intently at the water, alert for any prey.

Common Bonnet Mycenae, front garden

Common Bonnet Mycenae, front garden

Growing in a front garden by a main road, with ground level inside the garden wall conveniently at waist height, troops of tiny and delicate-looking common bonnet mycenae.

Brown rat, Perton

Brown rat, Perton

Brown rat by the lake at Perton, at the spot where young children are often brought to feed the ducks and geese. Its companion disappeared as soon as it noticed me there, but this one carried on looking for crumbs.

Like many other creatures, rats seemed to get a lot bolder during lockdown one in the spring. Unlike many others, they seem to have kept up the habit.