Wolves Wild

The first frosts of winter, at the end of last month, some of the vegetation which got a light dusting of ice crystals.

White saddle mushrooms with their contorted caps. These were growing in leaf litter just inches from the pipe club fungi pictured in yesterday’s post.

Moorhen swimming at top speed across the lake at West Park. Although there were a lot of other birds on the water, I couln’t see anything making it move so fast.

Pipe club fungus. The guide books have it down as rare, but that may be because they are hard to spot. Until I get down really close to them, they look like the stems of the leaves that fall at the same time of year that the fungus emerges.

Some of a city centre starling flock, seen on a lockdown early Sunday morning a couple of weeks ago. The birds roost in the trees of Dudley street, but had moved off towards the market to avoid work going on in the street. A count of twenty one may have missed one or two more.

Two different species of brittlegill mushrooms, also known as russulas, which were growing on roadside lawns in the same area of quiet residential streets.