Japanese or Chinese lantern – a garden I pass regularly has a border of them fronting the pavement. Bright colour every autumn.
Southern hawker dragonfly, flying
Finally, after many, many photos which just included a vague blue blur, these shots of a southern hawker dragonfly flying fast actually have a recognisable subject.
Bright red vibernum berries
Vibernum (guelder rose) berries, bright red and glossy. These on a bush at the back of Compton Lock.
Autumn / winter fungi: sulfur tuft
Sulfur tuft, not just autumn and winter fungi – common right through from early spring to the first hard frost.
Colours of autumn: robin’s pincushion red
Found decorating wild rose bushes in the autumn, robin’s pincushions are galls created by a robin’s pincusion gall wasp laying an egg in the twig of the bush. I assume the red of the gall is the same pigment as in the skin of the ripe rose hips, visible out of focus in these pictures.
Autumn fungi: Japanese umbrellas in short grass
Delicate-looking mushrooms found in short grass, sometimes called Japanese umbrellas.
