Category: David

Vivid autumnal colours of a Japanese acer in the rockery at the side of Bantock House.

Immature (or still in eclipse plumage) shoveller drake, swimming in a tight circle as it feeds, shovelling with its beak, on West Park lake. Further from the shore, another drake with its showier feathers.

Some of the fly agarics growing under a beech hedge in Bantock Park recently. These distinctive mushrooms usually grow in association with birch trees. Although there were birch trees close by, but these fungi were definitely asscoiated with the beech instead.

Young heron on a bough of a dead and fallen tree, looking over from boating lake island towards the Conservatory.

More, closer, views of the Egyptian goose which has been in on-off residence at West Park recently. On the shore, looking out over the lake.

Redlead roundhead mushroom mushroom all alone (or perhaps a few fragments of others which had been kicked over) growing on woodchip mulch by the Severn at Bridgnorth. They were growing in profusion at the same place, this time last year.