David

Waxcaps are a group of tiny, often strongly coloured, mushrooms. Several of the species are yellowish. This one is called the conical waxcap, though to my eye it is not noticeably more conical than other species.

These were peeping through moss on a lawn of flats near West Park.

The bright autumn leaves of a cherry tree on the fringes of Dudley Castle hill. There was a magpie perching high in the tree.

Two views of the same specimen of fly agaric, the toadstool which is the favourite of fairy tale illustrators.

This is one of the few I’ve seen this year. The fading of the red on the cap, and the loss of the “warts” from one section, will be effects of rain.

The middle picture is of a younger specimen.

A view from a high vantage point on the Wren’s Nest hill. The remains of Dudley Castle stand out on the next hill, backed by the masts of the mobile telephone companies on Rowley Hill in the greater distance.

This weird fungus can, sometimes, look extraordinarily like someone has been cutting off the upper surface of cauliflower florets and scattering them on the ground.

The early-morning sun was lighting the teazel from behind and outlining the spider’s web.

This set of swans were forming a tight group in the middle of the river Avon, their heads all down eating something.

The Welcombe LNR to the north-east of Stratford has a large number of ant hills.

Two of the resident gulls posing by the basin of the Stratford Canal.