David

This butterfly was feeding on the flowers in a thistle patch in Sutton Park back in the summer. I had walked most of the way round the park before I saw it, so I didn’t have the energy to wait for it to give me a fuller view of the wings, and so a better chance of working out the species.

Three views of the same unidentified mushroom growing in woodland leaf litter.

CORRECTION: identified by Lukas Large as possibly false chanterelle

At the end of November it came on to rain just before sunset was due. The result was the biggest and most spectacular rainbow I have ever seen. These pictures do not do it justice. Apart from being large, and practically a complete semi-circle, at its peak it was a triple bow. Apart from the brightest main bow, the colours appeared in reversed order just inside the main bow, and more faintly a little distance further out.

These were some of fly agarics growing on a grassy bank with birch trees right by the main road in Wordsley.

Three  different species of waxcap today – indeed possibly a fourth and even maybe a fifth, with the out of focus white and brown capped companions to the orange-coloured mushroom.

The top of the beacon seen from further along the ridge.

Growing through the moss on a tree stump. The outline of part of an ivy leaf on the left gives a scale to how tiny this fungus was.

A buzzard flying one of its regular patrols over the barley field on the Smestow Valley LNR.

Another mushroom that something has taken a chunk out of,