Wildlife from Wolverhampton and nearby
One of the West Park squirrels started coming towards me, hoping I was going to give it some peanuts. Then it spotted someone with a dog coming from the opposite direction. It turned tail, and started to run for the nearest tree. Once it had climbed high enough to feel safe, it paused to look around.
A front garden with a tree stump, with mushrooms growing on the stump. I’d previously passed the stump a fortnight earlier, and already taken pictures of the fungi.
Showing over the high garden wall of a house on one of the quiet streets at the back of Tettenhall’s Upper Green, an extreme colour contrast in autumn leaves.
The white spindles in this set which appear to be growing out of bare earth were in West Park. The others, white and yellow were growing together on the same lawn, which was also the lawn with the brown birch bolete (recent post).
A carrion crow up at the top of a tree in West Park. Its high vantage point would have given it a view over most of the park.
Lots of mushrooms are associated with trees. Some are not very particular about which kind of tree, while others occur only near one type of tree. Brown birch boletes are one such. The clue to the tree is in the name, which also gives an accurate description of the colour.