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Roadside maple on the edge of Himley village, at the end of last month when its leaves were just beginning to develop the bright reds and yellows of autumn.

The damp but still fairly warm weather means fresh crops of fungi. A recent brisk walk around the Woodland Trust’s Himley Plantation produced a species count in double figures. A patch of common funnel caps looked like they had only recently grown, though some had already been found by a hungry creature.

Ginger coloured lichen above bright green liverwort, growing in a niche on the top of the wall of one of thetwenty-one locks of the Birmingham Canal.

Ginger cat striding along a boat in the forecourt of the former Compton Boatyard, then pausing to clean itself.

Bonnet mycenae growing on wood mulch beside the Severn at Bridgnorth, and mushrooms of another mycena species half-hidden by grass under the hedge by the canal at Castlecroft.

Buzzard perched high in a treetop in Peasley Wood, seen from Wightwick Lock.