David

Bright red on the caps of a pair of fly agaric mushrooms under a hedge in Bantock Park.

Bright red flower on a poppy blooming in October. Growing by a verge in the Smestow Valley Nature Reserve, Newbridge.

Spindle fruit, with bright orange seeds which emerge from a pink covering. On these, the seeds were just starting to show.

Dock bug resting, not on dock but on a nettle leaf

Jay, possibly a young bird, which had just landed in a nearby tree as we were walking through the Paddock in the Smestow Valley Nature Reserve.

Wasp feeding on the pollen of ivy flowers, getting its body liberally sprinkled with the pollen in the process.