Yellow sac spider Cheiracanthium mildei – pictured as it crawled over the shoulder strap of my camera bag!
Greylags coming in to land, West Park
Group of greylag geese flying overhead as they come in to land on the lake at West Park.
Blushing bracket aka thin walled maze polypore
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.
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.
Young (and speckled) blackbird
Young (and reckless) blackbird with speckled feathers, searching for food right by a busy footpath.
Marsh Woundwort
Marsh woundwort flowering, growing by a footpath along the Avon at Stratford.