Another dewy spider’s web on plants overhaging the canal. The webs featured yesterday were seen on the same morning. In this web, the female cross spider was right in the middle of her domain.
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Red, green: fresh fly agarics
More recently-emerged fly agaric mushrooms at Bantock Park. Growing in the same area as the ones featured yesterday. These had not yet forced themselves all the way through the grass. But they had, unusually, already lost all the white “warts” which normally scatter over the caps.
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Dewy webs, no spider to be seen
Spider’s webs stretched along the tops of plants growing at the edge of the canal, early enough in the morning that the autumn sun hadn’t yet had time to warm away the dew. These webs didn’t have any sign of the spider living in them.
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Young fly agarics, Bantock Park
Recently emerged fly agaric mushrooms under the trees at Bantock Park, not yet disturbed either by human vandals or hungry animals.
Heron on the railing round West Park boating island, turning its back to avoid the people out for a stroll on a sunny day.
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Emerging brightly, orange grisette
The strongly orange colour of the cap of orange grisette mushrooms as they are just beginning to emerge from the soil. Pictures of more mature specimens of the same species taken at the same time and place here.