Small buzzard, possibly one of this year’s birds. It was sitting in the alders by the Compton Park pool, when it decided it didn’t like me crossing the footbridge, and headed off for a quieter spot.
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Cygnet bubbling along
Someone was giving the birds bread. This cygnet was so eager to get to the party that it was raising a mass of bubbles as it swam powerfully.
Common inkcap mushrooms growing in the hollow in the middle of a tree stump, as well as among the roots.
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Dead trunk with bee holes
The remains of the upstanding trunk of a dead tree in Himley Plantation. A close-up at about eye level shows the wood where the bark has fallen away marked by depressions, the ends of excavations made by bees or other burrowing insects.
Tiny spider which seemed to be hovering unsupported in mid-air. The threads of the web it was hanging from were little easier to see by my naked eye than in these pictures.
Four of the other species growing in the Castle Grounds on the day of my visit. While many fungi come in variations of the standard mushroom or toadstool shape, others such as the coral fungus and stemmed puffball featured here don’t.