Wolves Wild

Another of the mushrooms which has been popping up often this autumn. A brown birch bolete, this time on the lawn by the Finchfield shops.

Russula growing on the floor of Himley Plantation.

It is possibly Russula luteotacta, a fairly common member of the genus which doesn’t seem to have a common English name.

Clump of snowberries. A new world plant popular with gardeners because of its decorative berries.

I noticed this bigger than normal clump hanging down over a pavement.

When fly agarics first break through the soil, they don’t yet have a bright red cap.

This harvestman has eight legs, actually. They are related to spiders.

But when one is resting on a white wall in bright sunlight, the shadows look like there are more.

Yellow fieldcaps are fairly common small mushrooms. Their preferred habitat is meadowland with rich soil; here the recently mown Barley Field.

View across the boating lake, with the Conservatory to the left, and the sun about to rise behind the bridge.

Bandstand, sun hidden behind the trees beyond.

Yellow stagshorn is a common but tiny fungus which grows on decaying conifer, often on buried wood.

It’s a jelly fungus, and can be orange, through various shades of yellow, or rarely whitish.

This one was growing on a stump in Himley Plantation.

A couple of the black-headed gulls on Tettenhall Upper Green deciding that as I walk across the Green I’m getting a bit too near to where they are searching in the grass for something to eat.

Pictures from another visit to a group of fly agaric mushrooms growing under birch trees in West Park.

These first two are different views of the same individual.

Flat or upturned caps on somewhat older individuals.

Faded (or rather rain-washed) colours, well-nibbled – probably by squirrels. This one had been around still longer.

Blackening waxcaps turning from yellow to black.

Look for these, and other waxcap species, in short grass.

Waxcaps are a genus of small, often strongly coloured, mushrooms

These blackening waxcaps show on the lawn in front of a block of flats every autumn.

Spider wrapping threads of silk around a hoverfly which had been caught in its web.

The victim had first been carried to the edge of the web.

This action was taking place on vegetation right by the path through Baggeridge Country Park.