Wolves Wild

Growing by the footpath, in one of the beds between the upper pool and the shopping centre at Perton, some tawny funnel cap mushrooms.

A row of ginkos planted as the roadside trees at the Chapel Ash end of Compton Road. The autumn colours of the leaves are already striking against the blue sky of a sunny day, and tend to be some of the last to drop.

On (and under) one of the trees, there were also clusters of fruit – possibly the one female tree in the row.

Growing among wood mulch by a roadside, a lone grey knight mushroom.

Shades of green from some of the mosses and lichens growing on twigs.

Gull on the railing at the edge of the West Park lake. Most winters there seems to be one common gull on the lake joining the flocks of lesser black backed gulls and black headed gulls.

I thought this was the most recent example. Wrong. It’s a lesser black backed as it moves from juvenile to adult – an easy mistake to make, apparently.

Common inkcaps growing on wood chip mulch in Bantock Park. Despite their name, I notice them less often than shaggy inkcaps.

Common inkcaps are anatural source of the chemical used in aversion therapy as a treatment for alcoholism.