Wolves Wild

Shield bug which had retreated inside a lean-to, and was resting on one of the windows.

Mushrooms growing amid the leaf litter of a small group of trees. Perhaps verdigris agarics, but if so the characteristic colour resembling tarnished copper had been washed off by the persistent heavy rain.

Misty late October day. It was already mid=morning by the time I reached Himley Plantation. In open spaces, the mist had already lifted. In the clearings in the wood, a trace of the mist still present, just enough to transform the scene by catching the sunbeams forcing their way through the gaps in the trees.

Two neaby trees in Himley Plantation, each with tiny, delicate-looking fungi growing directly from the wood up tree trunks. The two sets of fungi were of similar size, but different species.

First frost of the winter leaves hoar sprinkled on a late clematis flower and the hips on the rose bush supporting it. Pictures of the same plants later in the day, when it had warmed up somewhat.

Big birch polypore on a fallen trunk in Himley Plantation. Although it looked fresh, it had already been lightly nibbled.