Ivy bee (aka ivy cellophane bee) on an ivy flower. This species of bee was first reported in southern England in 2001, and has been spreading north since.
A patch of ivy, flowering, was attracting lots of insects: wasps, hoverflies and many of these ivy bees.
Small stagshorn fungus growing on one of the fallen trees in Bantock Park recently.
Vegetation still predominantly green as autumn comes on: a thornapple fruit, and an oak with acorns only just beginning to ripen and brown.
Mushrooms growing on a patch of woodchip mulch, Bantock Park
More fly agaric mushrooms, still growing. Seen in different spots around Bantock Park on the same day as the kicked over one in the previous post
Fly agaric mushroom, Bantock Park. It had been kicked over not long after it had emerged.