A small selection of the blushing bracket fungus (otherwise known as thin wall maze polypore) on a fallen tree – in a small clearing yards from the Old Nursery pond.
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Fly agarics, Hawthorn Wood
Fly agaric mushrooms, which usually appear later in the autumn. These were in Hawthorn Wood.
Although they were right in the middle of the wood, someone had got to them before me and had kicked them over.
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Young (and speckled) blackbird
Young (and reckless) blackbird with speckled feathers, searching for food right by a busy footpath.
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Marsh Woundwort
Marsh woundwort flowering, growing by a footpath along the Avon at Stratford.
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Staring contest
Two herons on the island at West Park. One young, stretching tall, looking skinny. The other mature, hunched.
Usually, herons in near proximity stand so they are looking, as far as possible, to look away from each other. These, contrariwise, were facing each other directly, staring directly all the time I was there.
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Female garden spider and web
Female garden spider (sometimes called cross spiders) on her web. Autumn is the time these spiders become more obvious, the females becoming ever larger until they lay their eggs.