This flower patch is by a path next to the river Severn in Bridgnorth, marking the site of the foundry where Richard Trevithick’s Locomotive Catch me who can was built.
Category: David
Distant views of the Clees
Giant, not Sulfur, polypore – West Park
This fungus formed a mound-like structure yards from the Albert Road entrance to West Park.
CORRECTION, August 2013. This is NOT a sulfur polypore, but rather the not very similar looking giant polypore.
I was stone cold sober when I made the misidentification.
Pictures of this year’s return of the fungus to be posted soon.
Greenish frog
Compare the colour to that of the frog featuring a few days ago, whose picture was taken in almost the same spot.
Lords and ladies berries
Some great crested grebes
This bird, probably a well-grown chick, was one of a family of great created grebes on a large pool by the Marsh lane LNR in Hampton in Arden, Solihull.
This pair were on Swan Pool, Sandwell Valley, a week or so later.
One of the same pair, which has just caught a fish.
The pair’s three young chicks. They are much younger than the bird in the first picture – perhaps a second brood.