Wolves Wild

Honey fungus at the base of a roadside tree stump, the internal rot it caused almost certainly the reason the tree needed to be felled. These fruiting bodies looked to have been freshly appeared.

The Severn at Shrewsbury attracts, among others, plenty of ducks, geese … and cormorants. At any time of year, cormorants can be seen flying up or down the river and fishing in the water.

There are often two or three of them high in a tall chestnut tree by the Kingsland Bridge over the river, keeping watch or stretching their wings to dry the feathers after fishing.

The pleated caps are a hint that these are some species of inkcaps. The general shape and size suggests glistening inkcaps, but they are usually a more subdued brown.

Standing in the middle of a front lawn, its bright orange colour making it stand out despite it’s size, a single meadow waxcap.

A mushroom which seems to be cropping up even more often than usual this autumn: red cracking boletes.

The original mushrooms looked like they may have been up for some time, and got into a state were they were already hard to identify confidently. The patina of mould didn’t help.