A delicate mushroom lurking in the short grass by the canal towpath near Castlecroft.
Autumn leaves and peeling bark
Fly agaric, cap extended
Ageing honey fungus, Finchfield
Blackbird in a bush
Little grebe fishing, sequence
This little grebe may have been one of this year’s chicks.
It was on the canal near Compton.
Here it is coming back up from a dive, shaking its head: perhaps to kill the small fish in its beak before it eats.
It was a calm day, so most of the pictures had the bird’s reflection in water which was rippled by its own movement.
It slipped back into the overhanging vegetation.
Horse mushrooms growing on a bank
White domecap mushrooms
Milk-white little cup
Tiny fungus,less than half a centimetre across, growing in the moss on the top of a wall.
Doesn’t actually have an English name, presumably because it is so small that it usually escapes notice. Leptoglossum retirugum is its official Linnean name: milk-white little cup is a translation of its name in German, Milchweisser Becherling.
Fresh fly agaric mushroom among frosty leaves
Fly agaric mushroom pictured the morning after I’d first noticed it, here. The overnight frost was still on the leaf-litter.