Wrinkled club fungus growing among short grass surrounded by fallen leaves.
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Web of webs
Robust-looking support threads holding spiders’ webs festooned on the anti-climb structure on a pipe crossing a side-arm of the canal.
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Clematis, October-flowering
Another plant late flowering this year, a clematis. The more extreme close-ups on a day when the afternoon sun was lighting the flowers showily.
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Giant Puffball, Hawthorn Wood
Giant puffball, which was indeed impressively big, growing on an ivy-covered tree trunk in Hawthorn Wood.
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Fly agaric – nibbled by a badger?
Fly agaric mushrooms, under a birch tree by the canal in Compton Rough. All have been nibbled. The smallest one didn’t look like it had been knocked over by vandals, but by whatever had been eating it.
The perpetrator: possibly a badger. Close by, the ground had been disturbed by a badger digging for worms.
These pictures taken on two consecutive days. On the second visit, more of the fallen toadstool had been eaten. Had a badger come back for more?
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Lesser stitchwort, late flowering
Lesser stitchwort, still flowering towards the end of October. These were in Comptpn Park.
