Wolves Wild

Another visit to Bantock Park. By the beech hedge, a fly agaric mushroom, the cap not yet flattened. Another one earby, kicked over, showing the gills on the lower surface of the cap, and the stem with its ring half way down.

A mossy front lawn on a quiet side street, with a sprinkling of parrot wax caps, tiny but brightly coloured mushrooms. Most of the green colour had been washed off by heavy rain. But enough was still left to be sure the fungi weren’t one of the other yellowish waxcap species.

Seven spot ladybird which had chosen to rest on the edge of the lid of a household waste dustbin.

Goldfinch having an extended session eating sunflower kernels in a bird seed feeder.

Candle snuff fungus, looking a little like wicks from part-used candles, grow on dead wood.

These were on a felled trunk at Bantock Park, and a stump by the Railway Walk at Newbridge.

Island in the larger lake at Perton. Heron by the shoreline, staring intently at the water, alert for any prey.