Category: David

Smestow Brook, looking upstream from the footbridge crossing the Trescott Ford on a dull autumn day.

More fungi to look out for in autumn: candle snuff looks like clusters of candle wicks. They grow on dead wood, which is often invisible because underground.

Carrion crow prospecting on the scruffy margin of the Severn, the riverbank of the Bylet at Bridgnorth.

For a moment I thought that a holly growing by the path at Northycote Farm had berries more than twice as big as usual. Looking closer, the holly didn’t have any berries, presumably being a male bush. The tips of twigs of a rose briar were peeping through the holly leaves, with hips similar in colour to holly berries.

Mushroom which was growing in short grass, with a cap splitting radially as if dividing itself into segments.

Magpie inkcaps in the Castle Grounds, Bridgnorth. Some as they had newly emerged, others part-deliquesced – this group of mushrooms release their spores as their caps disintegrate.