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Dew-festooned web

Dew-festooned web

The same spider’s web, viewed from opposite sides early one morning after a heavy morning dew.

Dew-festooned web

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Dewy cobweb, Wightwick Manor

Dewy cobweb

Spider’s web in one of the Wightwick Manor garden bushes, outlined in the morning dew.

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Log pile

Woodpile

A pile of logs in the wood at Wightwick Manor. The white speckling on the cut ends of the logs is fungal, and quite likely to be the infection which meant the tree had to be cut down.

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Bright red leaves and berries – and lichen too

Autum leaves and berries

The bush with these fruit and berries was in a front garden. It is presumably an exotic, cultivated because the autumn leaves turn to almost the same shade of glossy red as the berries.

Autumn berries on a lichen-encrusted bush

Further along, the bush had already lost its leaves, showing the twigs were supporting a healthy growth of lichens.

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Buttercap mushrooms

Buttercap mushrooms

Buttercap mushrooms are also known as Greasy Toughshanks. These were growing in Bantock Park.

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Fungi growing on a lock gate

Fungi growing on a lock gate

Fungi growing from a crack in the wood in the lock gates at Wightwick Mill Lock recently.