Heron on the lookout, high in a conifer, on the island in West Park. In the picture showing the whole tree, the bird is just about visible in the branches half way up the trunk.
Bonnet (mycena) mushrooms
Bonnet mushrooms (mycenae) are a group of fungi species with bell-shaped caps on the top of narrow, fragile stems. The species can someitmes be hard to distinguish, but there are three different ones in this set: common, nitrous and ivory bonnets.
West Park pigeons, vantage point
A tree overlooking the lake and the bandstand at West Park, a favoured gathering point form the pigeons.
Ring of deceivers
Deceiver mushrooms, for once forming a fairy ring, a tree at the centre of the circle.
First frosts
The first frosts of winter, at the end of last month, some of the vegetation which got a light dusting of ice crystals.
White saddles in leaf litter
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.