Wolves Wild

One of the mahonia bushes in West Park flowering last week. It still looked the same when I passed the bush again in the freezing cold half an hour ago.

Verdigris agaric mushrooms have a greenish colour similar to the coating on weathered copper. By the time I found these, they were getting on a bit, and their colours were washed out.

They were growing on wood chip mulch in a plant bed by the ring road and the Molyneux ground.

Leopard slug moving down a concrete wall speckled with algae.

It seemed to be eating the algae.

Still the same red admiral, now shifted to give a view from above of its half-open wings.

Then another view from below, once again showing the long tongue in action.

Blackening waxcaps are yellow or orange when they first appear, gradually turning black within a few days.

They, and all waxcaps, are tiny mushrooms: less than a couple of centimetres high.

This is a comma butterfly, feeding on the same ivy bush as the red admiral. Once again, its long tongue means it holds its head up high while the food source is at its feet.

Yellow mould growing on the cut end of a felled tree trunk in East Park.

Two fly agaric mushrooms growing in a flower bed near the Chapel Ash roundabout. Although they looked fresh, something had already had already had several chunks out of this one.

This one had brought up some of the soil onto its cap as it grew.

Side view of the same mushroom, showing the ring on the stem.

The same red admiral butterfly featured in the previous post, now beginning to open its wings.

A red admiral butterfly feeding with its wings folded showing the less decorated underside.

Its long tongue allows it to hold its head high as it feeds on one of the bunch of flowers it is standing on.

A fly agaric mushroom is recogisable only bythe distinctive colours of its cap as it peeps through fallen leaves.

Leaves from one of the trees in the post earlier today here.