Back in November 2010, a heron standing on a snowy canal bank at Compton.
Not all fungi are mushrooms – yellow club
A reminder that not all fungi fruiting bodies are mushrooms. These are yellow club fungi, which possibly pop up among moss and long grass in the same spot every autumn, but I only managed to find some twice in the past decade.
Almost gone: shaggy inkcaps
Coprinus species fungi like these shaggy inkcaps shed their spores by deliquescing: the caps turn to a gooey black mess from the rim inwards. In the specimens pictured the process has gone to the end. The caps are almost gone. Traces of remains of the goo can be seen shadowing the stems.
Autumn colours: Japanese acer, West Park
Autumn leaves, bright colours: yellows and reds from one of the Japanese acers growing in West Park.
Shield bug inside
Shield bug which had retreated inside a lean-to, and was resting on one of the windows.
Verdigris mushroom (perhaps)
Mushrooms growing amid the leaf litter of a small group of trees. Perhaps verdigris agarics, but if so the characteristic colour resembling tarnished copper had been washed off by the persistent heavy rain.
