David

Blackening waxcaps are yellow or orange when they first appear, gradually turning black within a few days.

They, and all waxcaps, are tiny mushrooms: less than a couple of centimetres high.

This is a comma butterfly, feeding on the same ivy bush as the red admiral. Once again, its long tongue means it holds its head up high while the food source is at its feet.

Yellow mould growing on the cut end of a felled tree trunk in East Park.

Two fly agaric mushrooms growing in a flower bed near the Chapel Ash roundabout. Although they looked fresh, something had already had already had several chunks out of this one.

This one had brought up some of the soil onto its cap as it grew.

Side view of the same mushroom, showing the ring on the stem.

The same red admiral butterfly featured in the previous post, now beginning to open its wings.

A red admiral butterfly feeding with its wings folded showing the less decorated underside.

Its long tongue allows it to hold its head high as it feeds on one of the bunch of flowers it is standing on.

A fly agaric mushroom is recogisable only bythe distinctive colours of its cap as it peeps through fallen leaves.

Leaves from one of the trees in the post earlier today here.

As it fed on the ivy flowers, this comma butterfly kept flexing its wings. Its hairy body became very obvious when the wings were near the horizontal.

Trees by the Pitch and Putt at Bantock Park as their leaves changed colour for the autumn.