Earth star fungi: these collared earth stars regularly appear under a hedge by the canal at Castlecroft in the autumn, getting easier to see as the vegetation dies down over winter.
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Garden spider, on web after heavy rain
It had been raining heavily earlier, but this female garden spider wasn’t moving from the centre of her water-decorated web.
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Heron by a bench
Heron on the edge of the canal, by a bench on the car park of the Canalside Bar and Grill at Castlecroft. For a few seconds it looked like it was about to plunge into the canal to catch a fish.
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Fly agarics by the ring road
A patch of grass in a car park by the ring road, two fly agaric mushrooms. Photos taken through gaps in the fence.
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Ivy Cellophane Bee on ivy flower
Ivy bee (aka ivy cellophane bee) on an ivy flower. This species of bee was first reported in southern England in 2001, and has been spreading north since.
A patch of ivy, flowering, was attracting lots of insects: wasps, hoverflies and many of these ivy bees.
Small stagshorn fungus growing on one of the fallen trees in Bantock Park recently.
