Category: David

Goosander pair, probably the same birds featured in the previous post, now moved a hundred yards or so upstream of the Severn bridge, continually diving as they fished together.

Malw and female goosanders which were together on the sandspit at the tip of the Bylet at Bridgnorth when I arrived, presumably a pair. By the time I had got my camera out they had got on the Severn and were fishing together.

Bonnet mycenae, several different related species of small mushrooms, perhaps around an inch tall with thin stems and conical caps. Common but inconspicuous. Species very hard to tell apart (many impossible without specialised equiptment such as a microscope).

One of a pair of wagtails which were running round on the tarmac between the Molineux Hotel and the ring road, searching for insects.

Jelly fungus, oissibly witch’s butter, growing on a fallen tree trunk by the path at Northycote Farm.

Glistening inkcaps can be found any time from spring to late autumn, growing in clusters on dead wood. Sometimes on hidden roots, other times on tree stumps, as these fungi on a stump by the former Tettenhall Station platform.