Category: David

Magpie strutting across one of the patches of short grass in West Park, then cocking its head listening for things to eat.

Yellow flowers: the courgette was growing in Castle Grounds Park, Bridgnorth; the evening primrose at the back of Bantock House.

Collared earth stars growing in one of the beds in Bridgnorth’s Castle Grounds. These distinctive fungi appear in the same area year after year.

Hoverfly standing on the rim of a bindweed flower, pausing before going to collect nectar.

The Egyptian goose, on-off resident at West Park recently, raising its wings slightly to make its body look bigger. It was in the midst of a crowd of other geese (some greylags, but mostly Canadas) which had been jostling for bread.

False saffron milk cap mushrooms growing on a lawn: these fruiting bodies had been out for some time so they had turned a green / blue colour. Grow only in association with conifers. Like all milk caps, they exude a “milk” when damaged; in this species it is a bright red fluid.