Candle snuff fungus forms clumps or patches of small growths which look a little like the wicks of part-used candles.
This year, the conditions seem to have been particularly good for candle snuff fungus; there’s lots of it about.
This patch was in Hawthorn Wood recently.
The trees on the top of Tettenhall ridge turning for autumn. Those lower down, by Meccano Bridge, were still green.
This patch of honey fungus was showing the signs of having been around for some time: cracked, contorted, and slightly nibbled away.
It was growing around a tree stump in Bantock Park.
A yarrow still in flower recently by the canal at Castecroft.
A cluster of warty puffballs were growing on a tree stump.
The fungi were very small, and so tightly grouped they were squeezing into one another.
One of the Smestow Valley buzzards riding a thermal over Barley Field as it gains height to go off hunting.
