Category: David

Dyer’s polypore fungus, also goes under the names of velvet-top fungus and dyer’s mazegill. These specimens, all at different stages, were growing in Himley Plantation.

The climate of southern France means that cacti can sometimes be found as roadside bedding plants. These were in Cassis.

Young heron on the shingle bank connecting the Bylet with the old bridge at Bridgnorth. When someone startid throwing bread for the ducks and geese, it flew the short distance to join the throng, took a couple of pieces, then strolled back to where it had been once the bounty was over.

When I crossed the bridge a little while later, it was in the same place, now stretched out on the ground.

Prickly pears, edible (for those who don’t mind facing the spines) fruits of a group of cactus species of the same name, seen on plants at different stages of ripening.

In some puffball species, the “ball” seems to rest directly on the ground. Others, like this cluster, have a distinct stalk. These were growing on mossy ground in Himley Plantation earlier this month.

Lone cormorants fishing in the deep waters of En Vau calanque near Marseille, with the white of the limestone cliffs reflected off the surface of the sea. A trio of the same species fly upstream alone the River Rhone.