As the autumn leaves come down, it is easier to see birds perching high in trees. One mistlethrush features here. What may have been its mate was at the same level on the opposite side of the tree.
Purple berries
Upright coral fungus, Castlecroft
Chaffinch on seed feeder
Spider on a tree trunk
Eat up your crust
Autumn mahonia flower
Off the wall
Party of pigeons
Bright autumn leaves
Sepia boletes
Sepia bolete mushrooms growing on a grassy bank overlooking Wolverhampton ring road.
To confirm the identification as sepia boletes, I would have had to examine the spores under a microscope. All the features visible to the naked eye pointed to that species, which field guides rate as rare or infrequent in Britain.
Shropshire hills, distant views
Two views looking at the hills of Shropshire. Here the Wrekin is in the distance, seen at a gap in the hedge along the lane which runs along a section of the Shropshire/Staffordshire border: County Lane between Codsall and Pattingham.
Here the Clees are on the skyline from the top of Nurton Hill. Pattingham church is peeping up from a setting which looks deceptively sylvan on the left of the picture.