Wolves Wild

Spiderswebs with fine drops of dew, which had condensed from the mist of the same morning as in the previous post.

A last view of a couple of the West Park Japanese acersautumn display before wind and rain brought down most of their leaves. The pictures were taken on a very misty morning at the start of the month.

Tiny droplets of moisture from early morning dew on these yew berries and leaves, and the threads of spider silk anchored to the leaves.

Oyster fungus – the same species of mushroom found on some supermarket shelves – growing on the stump of a tree which was felled some years ago.

One day after these pictures were taken, someone had kicked these fungi into a pulp.

The West Park boating lake on a misty morning at the start of the month.

When I went around dawn, the water was covered in ducks, geese and swans. An hour or so later, the birds all seemed to have gone.

Carrion crow eating something at the edge of a puddle on a grassy area in West Park. Perhaps one of the acorns it then went searching out in the grass and eating.

Sown bed of wildflowers overlooking the bridge at Ironbridge, with lots of flowers still showing at the end of October. On the well-wooded south bank of the river, the leaves turning to autumn colours.

Deeply grooved felled tree trunk and the remaining stump, surrounded by the leaves which had fallen from other nearby trees.

Young moorhen on the shore of the West Park lake, staring at me with a puzzled expression as I took a quick snap of it.

The frost had disappeared some time ago from everything else when I took this picture. But this nettle must have spent the morning in deep shadow, with the sun recently arriving to begin to melt the powdery ice.

Pied wagtails with hunting grounds in the shallows and shoreline at the downstream end of the Bylet in the Severn at Bridgnorth.

Bullrush (reedmace) seed heads, clumped closely together.