Wolves Wild

Tawny grisettes with the rounded caps of newly-grown fruiting bodies, which had probably come up overnight.

Compare the flattened caps of the more mature versions.

I thought the caps were more the range of colours of egg yolks than tawny.

Japanese knotweed is one of the most persistent of the introduced species which have become weeds. This one was growing by the Smestow Brook.

Tawny grisettes are a fairly common mushroom which I don’t remember ever seeing before. I’ve noticed them in several places this year.

These were growing under a birch and an oak by the footpath across Compton Rough.

All growing in one patch, so presumably all the same species.

But notice the variation in the colours of the caps.

Small copper butterfly, another of the insects attracted by this morning’s reed flowers.

Wasp – one of the insects attracted to the reed flowers in the previous post.

Tall reed with pink flowers, growing at the sides of a pond near the road crossing the golf course on Penn Common.

Seeds beginning to ripen on loosestrife stalks. There’s still just a hint of the stronger purple of the flowers.

Some of the horses which roam loose in Sutton Park.

These were at Little Bracebridge Pool.

A picture with strong contrasting colours for a Monday morning – a sunflower in a front garden, with a bright blue door as the background.

Large slug heading across a towpath on a damp morning.

Several clumps of giant polypore fungal fruiting bodies growing on a tree root in West Park.

They were darker and more strongly zoned here than they had been a few days previously.

More of the grey spotted amanitas which did well this year.

I noticed these on a lawn in Tettenhall.