Chicken of the woods is a bracket fungus, which causes brown rot in the trees it grows on. It’s also a target for the fungi foragers – though not this particular growth, which comes back each year on a fallen willow on the edge of the island in the West Park lake.
A moth, species unidentified, resting up for the day on a window.
The flowering season almost over, the teazles on the pond at Compton Park with their seed heads beginning to ripen.
Bright red fly resting on one of the bulrush leaves on the Compton Park pool, seemingly little worried by the camera’s near approach for these close-up shots.
By the middle of July, the surviving West Park cygnets had grown almost to adult size, and were spending quite a lot of their time stretched out on lawns preening to remove their juvenile downy feathers.
Acorns from the same oak tree as those pictured in a post a few days ago. These pictures taken three weeks or so later, by which time the nuts had filled out considerably.