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The most adventurous of this year’s three cygnets at West Park, which has been spending most of its time on its own for longer than the other pair.

Seed heads in a mass in the wetland area by the pool at Compton Park, a patch which as developed from one or two plants when the pool was created in 2013.

An earlier post has views of the same patch when the plants were flowering.

On this visit to West Park, two herons were on one of the islands. One was in plain sight, the other more reclusive a little behind.

As often when herons are near each other, they were standing facing in different directions.

Common ramping-fumitory (Fumaria muralis) growing in a corn field near Bishop’s Castle, still some flowers at the start of this month.

Two moorhens on the lake at West Park, possibly this year’s chicks recently in their adult feathers.

The early arrival of autumn gales has meant a spell of warm wet weather, triggering an equally early start to the annual fungi flush. These were all withing a few yards of one another in the woodland recently opened up in the woodland in the Old Nursery area of the Smestow Valley Nature Reserve.