Wildlife from Wolverhampton and nearby
Anglers Walk is a riverside footpath heading upstream by the Avon. It’s now been improved and as part of a recently created Stratford upon Avon Local Nature Reserve.
This blushing bracket fungus is growing on the branches of one of the bushes beside the path, where it’s been sending out its fruiting bodies for several years.
The fruiting bodies start out off-white above and below, where there are mazy pores. The “blushing” is a response to being touched.
A large oak by the river in the Bancroft Gardens, Stratford on Avon. A few people can be seen behind it, watching the swans swim up and down the water.
This autumn, some of the local acers seem to have outdone themselves in the brightness of the reds of their leaves. This one was in a front garden.
Clustered domecaps, a fairly common mushroom which – surprise – tends to grow in clusters. They often grow close to paths, as these were doing in a woody area in West Park.
A big pile of fungi photos: there have been so many this autumn that I haven’t kept up with posting them, or even trying to work out which species they are.
Trees beside the perimeter path in West Park, changing colour before the autumn leaf fall.