Parasol mushroom, possibly a shaggy parasol, just as it was starting to emerge on the edge of the Pitch and Putt course at Bantock Park.
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Alert (squirrel, Bantock)
One of the Bantock Park squrrels looking alert as if just ready to pounce. It actually walked off quite slowly just after these pictures were taken.
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Lone verdigris mushroom, Compton Rough
Lone verdigris mushroom growing by the footpath in Compton Rough. Most of the distinctive “tarnished copper” green colouring had been washed off the cap by rain, with just a trace still present around the rim.
Bright red autumn leaf colours of a cherry tree in Bantock Park.
Honey fungus only just beginning to form a cluster of fruiting bodies. Seen from above and the side, growing on a tree stump beside the Railway Walk at Finchfield. The final picture is of a more mature clump of honey fungus growing on a stump in Himley P;antation.
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Tiny candlesnuff fungi
Candlesnuff fungi, a fraction of an inch tall, growing from a fallen log by the side of the Railway Walk. These were only a few days old. I’d checked the same log less than a week earlier, with no signs of fungi.