Carrion crows high in trees, on the lookout, masters of all they survey.
Inkcap mushrooms
Two of the larger species of inkcap mushrooms: glistening inkcaps and common inkcaps (which are actually not as common, at least around here).
Winter reds, scarlet elf cup fungi
Bright colour for the depth of winter. Scarlet elf cups come out at the coldest time of the year, growing on dead wood. These were on a wood-pile where they have been showing for several years, near the Railway Walk at Newbridge.
Autumn reds, haws
Hawthorn bush which was particularly heavily laden with haws last month, on the edge of a field in the Smestow Valley nature Reserve.
Candlesnuff in winter, Old Nursery Wood
Candlesnuff fungus grows in clusters or rows on dead wood – sometimes on dead wood hidden underground. Less than half an inch high, it can be seen through the winter, unlike most fungi.
Double entry (setts)
A badger stett in Himley Plantation, with two of the entrances right next to each other.
This sett, in West Park, has about a dozen entrances in a small mound of raised earth under s clump of trees.