Remains of a hogweed plant, at the lower end of the Barley Field in the Smestow Valley nature Reserve.
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.
Preen on the shingle
The resident muscovy duck, a drake, by the big lake at Perton, having a preen while standing on the shingle.
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.
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.
Pipe up
Pipe club fungus, around an inch or two tall, so often not very conspicuous in grass, undergrowth and the autumn leaf-fall.
