David

Heron on the edge of the canal, by a bench on the car park of the Canalside Bar and Grill at Castlecroft. For a few seconds it looked like it was about to plunge into the canal to catch a fish.

A patch of grass in a car park by the ring road, two fly agaric mushrooms. Photos taken through gaps in the fence.

Ivy bee (aka ivy cellophane bee) on an ivy flower. This species of bee was first reported in southern England in 2001, and has been spreading north since.

A patch of ivy, flowering, was attracting lots of insects: wasps, hoverflies and many of these ivy bees.

Small stagshorn fungus growing on one of the fallen trees in Bantock Park recently.

Vegetation still predominantly green as autumn comes on: a thornapple fruit, and an oak with acorns only just beginning to ripen and brown.

Mushrooms growing on a patch of woodchip mulch, Bantock Park