Wolves Wild

A late-blooming passion flower plant. Its flower buds survived the first frosts of the winter, and one opened fully last month. But later, the flower and buds under the first harder frost of the season.

Stunted and dingy fly agaric mushroom growing in a flower bed by Chapel Ash roundabout. The cap is possibly coated in mud thrown up by this autumn’s frequent heavy rains.

Glistening inkcap mushrooms and turkey tail bracket fungi growing close together by the base of one of the trees in West Park.

Shovellers, another species of ducks where a small flock gather on the sheltered municipal lakes like this at West Park for the winter. They feed by swimming round in tight circles, their beaks just under the surface of the water.

Mistle thrush searching one of the patches of short grass near the West Park bandstand, after tasty morsels.

Parasol species mushroom, just emerging in then shadow of one of the hedges in Bantock Park. It was too soon to see what type of parasol it was.