More from this season’s developing fungi flush. Glistening ink caps are quite common except in the coldest months of the year. They grow in clusters, often larger and closer together than these.
These three groups were neighbours in grass at the edge of a pavement. Probably they emerged on consecutive days, so they show the effects of aging on this species.
Boletes on a front lawn. Boletes are a group of mushroom species where the spores come out of pores on the underside of the cap, not gills.
A wide stretch of mud exposed at low tide on the River Exe. The still water on a calm morning and Haldon Forest on the far skyline project an image of calm. In reality, that calm isn’t helped by the constant drone of the traffic on the M5, which crosses a bridge not far up-river.
I usually save pictures of unusual weathervanes I’ve spotted for special posts over Christmas, but this one went that step beyond in having the pointer as a 3D representation of a leaping porpoise. Topsham, overlooking the Goatwalk footpath by the Exe estuary.
It seems that the autumn fungi flush might be getting going. It’s possible to spot a few different species even when wandering down quiet residential streets.
These mushrooms were on a front lawn, to far away for a proper ID. But they stood out because their caps were very white.
Two swans with their necks entwined. At the feet of the effigy of Margaret de Bohun, Countess of Devon, in the fourteenth century tomb she shares with her husband, Hugh de Courtney, Earl of Devon.
When swans are paired up (supposedly monogamously and for life) they do engage in their own version of necking, but I have my doubts that the contortions go quite so far as portrayed here.
A swan was the Bohun family heraldic beast, at least according to Wikipedia. The tomb is in the west transept of Exeter cathedral.