Finally got around to visiting the Butterfly Farm at Stratford on Avon recently, and was stunned by everything there was to see there. The main area has a wealth of tropical butterflies flying free – pictures to come.
But also worth looking out for on a visit is the Minibeast Metropolis – vivariums with various vertebrates and invertebrates. Today’s posts, reptiles from that room, here a skink staring back at me.
Clump of honey fungus at the base of a tree. The cap and stem of this particular honey fungus species covered in what look from a distance like protective spikes.
Greylag goose on the shingle foreshore of the Bylet in the Severn at Bridgnorth, having a good preen then standing up to stretch.
Black-headed gull taking a pause floating on the boating lake at West Park, and its reflection in the dark water.
Lone tiny mushroom, possibly a blewitt, cap an unusual lilac or violet colour. It was growing on a mossy front lawn.
Earthball fungi growing in bare earth inone of the shrubbery beds in West Park. Tiny – the largest one perhaps the size of a malteser.
