Goldfinch having an extended session eating sunflower kernels in a bird seed feeder.
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Candle snuff on stump
Candle snuff fungus, looking a little like wicks from part-used candles, grow on dead wood.
These were on a felled trunk at Bantock Park, and a stump by the Railway Walk at Newbridge.
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Alert heron, Perton
Island in the larger lake at Perton. Heron by the shoreline, staring intently at the water, alert for any prey.
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Roadside milk cap, Perton
Single mushroom, one of the milk cap species, by the main road just outside the Perton estate.
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Common Bonnet Mycenae, front garden
Growing in a front garden by a main road, with ground level inside the garden wall conveniently at waist height, troops of tiny and delicate-looking common bonnet mycenae.
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Brown rat, Perton
Brown rat by the lake at Perton, at the spot where young children are often brought to feed the ducks and geese. Its companion disappeared as soon as it noticed me there, but this one carried on looking for crumbs.
Like many other creatures, rats seemed to get a lot bolder during lockdown one in the spring. Unlike many others, they seem to have kept up the habit.