Wolves Wild

Another plant late flowering this year, a clematis. The more extreme close-ups on a day when the afternoon sun was lighting the flowers showily.

Giant puffball, which was indeed impressively big, growing on an ivy-covered tree trunk in Hawthorn Wood.

Fly agaric mushrooms, under a birch tree by the canal in Compton Rough. All have been nibbled. The smallest one didn’t look like it had been knocked over by vandals, but by whatever had been eating it.

The perpetrator: possibly a badger. Close by, the ground had been disturbed by a badger digging for worms.

These pictures taken on two consecutive days. On the second visit, more of the fallen toadstool had been eaten. Had a badger come back for more?

Lesser stitchwort, still flowering towards the end of October. These were in Comptpn Park.

Magpie on the shore of West Park lake, giving me a suspicious look as it decides whether it needs to flee.

Earthballs, part of a group of perhaps twenty, growing scattered seeminlgy at random close togeter on a patch of short grass in West Park.