Half-grown cygnet using its flexible neck to turn its head back to groom its wing feathers.
But they look like berries
Yew “berries” are actually modified cones containing a single seed (0ne can be seen peeping out in this picture) covered by a fleshy aril.
The bright red of the aril as the seed ripens contrasts with the continuing green of the leaves as autumn sets in.
Bird of little brain
Male pheasant, its tiny head just big enough for an escape strategy of flying away slowly and noisily to make a perfect target for a shotgun.
Yellow, blue: ripening crab apples
Yellow crab apples as they ripen, seen against the blue sky of a sunny morning.
Comma on the ground
Comma butterfly on a patch of bare soil, warming up in the morning sun about a month ago.
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Sweet chestnuts, on and off the tree
Not conkers, but sweet chestnuts (the tree is also known as Spanish chestnut). The edible kind, though the fallen one was to small to be worth the bother.
Smestow Brook from Hordern Road
Smestow Brook firmly culverted as it heads downstream after going under Hordern Road.
Tulip tree details
Flower bud and leaf from a tulip tree in the garden of Wightwick Manor.
Growing down and out
Mushroom growing from the end of a fallen tree trunk. The bend in the stem might have been caused by the trunk moving after the fungus started to grow.
Hollow oak, Upper Green, Tettenhall
Ancient, hollowed-out oak by the paddling pool on Tettenhall Upper Green.
The charring in the hollow presumably indicates that vandals once set a fire inside.
Sulfur tuft cluster on a stump
Mushrooms to look out for over the coming months. Sulfur tuft are bright yellow and grow in clumps on wood (including buried wood).
They are one of the few species which should carry on appearing even in the coldest winter months.
Juvenile b.h. gull
Juvenile black headed gull, possibly mature next year, using a post in Perton Pool as a vantage point.