A new and fresh-looking birch polypore growing low on the moss-covered of a silver birch in Himley Plantation. Nearby, an older specimen, flattened and with curling edges.
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Early autumn comma butterflies
Comma butterflies from the generation where summer is giving way to autumn, resting on the leaf of an elm and a hawthorn.
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Sweet chestnuts, unripe
Sweet chestnuts, still ripening on their trees. The first picture is one of several which were scattered on the ground in Himley Plantation, all looking like a squirrel had taken one bite out of them and then rejected them as unripe.
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Canalside spider, Compton
Spider in the middle of its web, overhanging the canal at Compton.
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Slime mould on a fallen tree
Slime mould on one of thefallen trees in Himley Plantation.
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Puffballs on mossy fallen log
A fallen log in the Woodland Trust’s Himley Plantation, the upper surface covered with moss. A crowd of small, stalked puffballs pushing through, fresh-looking despite some already having been nibbled.