Mass of ripening crab apples on a tree in the front garden of an old black-and-white cottage on the edge of the main village, Berkswell.
Turkey, Northycote
Figwort going to seed
Tawny Grisettes under a birch tree, Compton Rough
Heather, Gospel Oak Common
Late set of ducklings
Growing moorhen chick, Wetland Pool
Red, green, black: blackberries ripening
Amethyst deceivers, Himley Plantation
These mushrooms are not particularly deceptive – their delicate pale purple colour is quite distinctive. The name comes because they are closely related to another species, simply called deceivers, which are pale brown and so variable in form that it is easy to mistake them for many other types of toadstool.