Scarlet elf cups are fungi which produce their brightly coloured fruiting bodies just about this time of year. I’ve not managed to get out to look for them at any of their usual spots this year for various reasons. So here’s some pictures I took a few years ago.
Under the trees at Bantock Park. near to the flowering crocuses, one of the clumps of snowdrops.
A pair of the mallards on the lake at West Park, still quite early one morning, both asleep.
Yards away from the yellow crocuses in Bantock Park, clumps with purple flowers were not quite as fully open.
A couple of the shovellers which overwinter on the lake at West Park. For once they weren’t busily swimming in tight circles, hoovering the surface of the water for food. They were about as near as they ever come to the shore, resting. The female actually asleep.
Some of the yellow crocuses under the trees at Bantock Park, flowering a few days ago