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Late-autumn views along the ridge of the Malvern Hills on an overcast morning, with the lowest whisps of the cloud just brushing the hills

One of the many forms taken by fungi with fruiting bodies which aren’t mushrooms – coral fungi are a group which look like they belong a fathom deep in warm tropical seas. This was growing in one of the beds of the Castle Grounds, Bridgnorth.

Greenfinches, one at a time, eating on a seed feeder. There’s also a couple of flying visits from a bluetit.

A large holly bush on the outskirts of Berkswells, which seemed almost covered with a vigorous growth of ivy. The ripe holly berries just peeping out, the ivy berries also ripening. It all looked a suitable subject for Christmas.

All that remains of one of the rosebay willowherb plants in Compton Rough as winter starts.

Buzzard circling over the Railway Walk at Compton as it rides a thermal to head off on its first hunt of the morning.