Spider, probably a cross spider, wrapping silk around an insect which had been caught in its web.
I noticed the spider at work while I was sitting having a quiet drink on the terrace of the Dirty Duck by the river in Stratford on a sunny afternoon recently.
It would suit me if all wildlife watching could take place in similar circumstances.
Some of the Japanese acers in West Park, their leaves changing colour.
Whoever planted them seems to have ensured that they are of different species or varieties, so as to give different autumnal colours.
These pictures were all taken on the same morning at the start of the month.
Small stagshorn fungus, tiny and brightly coloured, grows in damp open ground. Yellow stagshorn looks similar but larger, and grows in woodland.
Ripe holly berries on a sunny morning, glistening because they were still wet from overnight rain.
Puffball which had lost most of its spores and was beginning to split open.
Berries growing on one of the dogwood bushes by the larger pool at Perton.
Yellow stagshorn fungus only grows to a couple of inches tall, but it is usually a bright, almost fluorescent, yellow – though the colour can range from orange to almost white.
This was one of several clumps growing on the ground in the wood at Northycote Farm.
Rose hips on one of the bushes on the margin of the Barley Field.
Insect resting on a wall. Its antennae were being bent to the right by the breeze.
Remains of a plant growing on the bank of the Penk at Perton. I couldn’t get close enough to examine it properly. But as it was at least ten feet tall it is a reasonable guess that it was a giant hogweed.
A few yards further down the path I saw a member of another invasive species, a mink. It disappeared back into the bushes much too quickly for me to get a picture.
Squirrel which was rushing round then pausing for a brief dig with its front paws. I thought it was busy burying nuts.
Then it dug where I had a clearer view. It fetched something out of the ground and ate it.
Three views of the same butter waxcap, showing the differences made by small changes in camera angle. All three shots were taken low down, close to the small mushroom, this one level at cap height.
Looking down from slightly above, and up from slightly below the cap.
The mushroom was one of those we were shown on last month’s fungi hunt on Northycote Farm.