Quite a few geese gather on the river at Bridgnorth, dominating the gangs of waterfowl and gulls which assemble whenever anyone throws bread to the birds. Most of the geese have white plumage of feral domesticated birds, or partially white of feral / greylag crosses. Two such birds were vigorously preening in the side stream which runs between the Bylet and the left bank of the Severn.
The catkins on a pink pussy willow in Bantock Park were indeed distinctive in being pink. It’s a willow which originally comes from Japan.
Crawling round on the layered cup fungi (previous post) was a tiny fly which I only noticed when I got home and saw the pictures on a larger screen. As this cropped version of one of the pictures shows, even then it came out somewhat pixelated. An ID by iNaturalist suggests it may be one of the Heleomyzid flies, also known as the spiny-winged flies. Some species of these flies are associated with fungi.
Layered cup Peziza varia is one of the so-called cup fungi. Many of them are roughly thimble shaped and roughly thimble sized. Layered cups are neither, if these were typical. They were a couple of inches across and mostly rather flattened.
The bank of the Smestow under the Bridgnorth Road bridge at Compton was a bank of lesser celandines in flower. Looking down from the bridge, this was the best view I could get.
Fairies bonnets, small mushrooms of the Coprinus genus, almost always appear in swarms. These had forced their way through the gap between the pavement and a garden wall.