These mushrooms were growing hiding under a bush not far from the Smestow Valley Ranger Station recently.
They don’t have an English name: indeed the only western European language which seems to have a name for them is German. That name translates as the grey and white carbolic mushroom.
A magpie busy feeding on the lawn outside the Customs and Excise office on Tettenhall Road, unconcerned at the people passing by.
It may be the same adult bird which had been feeding on the front lawn of one of the houses nearby pictured some weeks earlier, or possibly a now older chick which had been with the adult [picture].
A mixed flock of black headed and lesser black backed gulls which regularly rest up on the local playing fields.
A flock of jackdaws are increasingly prospecting the same area.
The boldest of the jackdaws were walking in the midst of the gulls.
A rose growing on the outside wall of the one-time lock keeper’s cottage at Wightwick Lock last weekend.
Leaves changing colour on a maple in a front garden in Castlecroft.
I couldn’t decide which picture I liked best.
Spiderswebs seem to become more noticeable in the autumn. This one was catching the sun just after dawn.