Some of the same wood blewits featured in a post yesterday, seen three days later. The distinctive colour turning to brown, as the mushrooms prove as popular with the local fauna as they are with foodies.
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Hogweed, winter remains
Remains of a hogweed plant, at the lower end of the Barley Field in the Smestow Valley nature Reserve.
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Wood blewits, before
Wood blewit mushrooms, growing by the side of Richmond Road. From the colour, some of them must have emerged very recently when I saw them.
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Preen on the shingle
The resident muscovy duck, a drake, by the big lake at Perton, having a preen while standing on the shingle.
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Orange peel fungus, Castlecroft
The first orange peel fungus I’ve noticed this year, on a patch of bare ground by a tree stump carved as an owl at Castleccroft.
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Heron: fishing, flying. Perton
Heron on the big pool at Perton, fishing as it stood in the water by a reed bed, they flying to the island.