West Park squirrels which couldn’t make up their minds whether to approach me in the hope of being fed, or to dash away to safety.
Deceiver cluster
Cluster of deceiver mushrooms near a busy road in Wombourne. Get their name because they can easily be confused with lots of other types of small brownish mushrooms.
Swan, full-sized cygnet, West Park
Two swans, one adult, the other one of this year’s brood of cygnets, now grown full-sized, on the boating lake at West Park.
Milk-cap under roadside tree
Milk-cap mushroom growing among the leaf litter under a tree by the side of one of the main roads leading into Wolverhampton.
Webs in the morning
Spiders’ webs seen on a misty morning on scaffolding along Castle Walk, Bridgnorth.
Shaggy scalycaps, Bantock Park
Shaggy scalycap mushrooms by the base of two of the trees in Bantock Park. The mushrooms appear in the autumn. They are the fruiting bodies of one of the species of fungus causing white rot in trees.