Hairy curtain crust fungus, also known as false turkey tail, growing on a fallen tree trunk on Northycote Farm. The log and the edges of the fungus fruiting bodies were covered with frost crystals the morning this picture was taken.
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Tuftie winter gathering
Tufted ducks gathering to ride out the winter on the lake at West Park. As the weeks go by, the numbers are edging up slowly.
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Groundsel, not on ground
Groundsel and other plants growing from a gap between a stone and the mortar in the wall beside the main road at Undercliff, Bridgnorth.
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Crow bathing, Severn, Bridgnorth
Carrion crow bathing in the Severn, in the shallow water by the shingle beach at the upstream apex of the Bylet at Bridgnorth, splashing around having a good clean.
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Tawny milkcaps on a lawn
Things which can be spotted while walking along by a busy main road. Thesw Tawny milkcap mushrooms were growing on a lawn under trees. The last two pictures are of a specimen blackening with age – I’m guessing of the same species as the others.
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Work, rest and play (weathervanes)
Ornate bespoke weathervanes. The carpenter at work was on a building by a road leading out of Cambridge, some way from the college-dominated city centre. The fop examining antiques in the centre of Ross on Wye, quite likely on one of the numerous antique shops in the town. The bowls on the pavilion of the riverside bowling green in Stratford on Avon.