Wolves Wild

Young lesser black-backed gull (juvenile transitioning to first winter) taking off from the boating lake lake, West Park.

Close view of some turkey-tail fungus, a common bracket fungus – layers of fan-shaped brackets with concentric zones of different colours. Found on the trunks or stumps of dead trees.

Growing in the short grass under a birch tree by a main road in Wombourne, a couple of fly agarics. The domed caps show that they must have been freshly emerged. They had, however, been up long enough for many of the so-called warts to be washed off by overnight rain.

Berries on one of the West Park yews, not quite ripe. The fleshy coverings had not yet become as deeply red as when they are ripe, and the miniature cones inside were still just about visible.

One of the West Park cygnets preening, perhaps working to remove the grey down feathers to reveal the white adult plumage growing below.

Distinctive colour of these purple beautyberries on a bush in West Park makes them stand out in contrast with the more usual shades of autumn.