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Fallen leaf from a sycamore tree. It had come off just as the colours were beginning to change for the autumn.

Parasols, as far as I know the largest mushrooms in this country, can grow up to a foot or so tall and with a cap almost as wide.

Small clusters of berries on a black nightshade plant which was growing as a garden weed.

Trees of the maple family originating outside Europe have leaves which turn much more vivid colours before they drop in autumn. West Park has been planted with a range of varieties of Japanese acer, with different shades of leaf, last month while they were still on the trees.

False saffron milk cap mushroom: found in association with conifers from high summer to autumn. Milk caps are a group of mushrooms which give out a fluid with a milky consistency when injured, white in some species, but orange in this one. Orange coloured, soon turning green or blue.

A line of the swans on the Avon at Stratford, heading towards me in convoy.