This unusual-looking fungus was growing in two clumps on the opposite sides of a tree in West Park. There were warty or spiky protruberences on the upper surface.
The lower surface was slightly rippled, but there was no sign of gills or pores.
The yellow zone on the upper surface was much clearer on one side of the tree than the other.
The small white butterfly is usually quite timid, but this one was resting on a leaf and let me get close enough for a photo.
One of the reeds growing by the Staffs & Worcs canal near Castlecroft, its seeds ripening about a month ago.
Little Japanese umbrella mushrooms are common. But these small and elegant fungi often grow in grass, where they can be easily overlooked. This one was growing on a roadside near Worfield.
Cones developing on a monkey puzzle tree in West Park yesterday.
Are the yellow structures on the tips of the more distant branches the flowers?
Tortoiseshell butterflies normally rest with their wings spread. This one kept its wings folder together, showing the undersides, for several minutes.
Cross spiders are probably the commonest garden spider which builds the classic type of spider’s web. This one was in a bush right by a main road.
The insects were out in force, feeding, in Barely Field on a warm day over the August Bank Holiday weekend.
The greenbottle seemed to be lethargic on a warm day at the end of August: it stayed on the leaf as I got near enough for this close-up.
A small and inconspicuous moth, resting on a nettle leaf in a field near the Smestow Valley Ranger Station.
The trail left behind shows the path this snail took as it moved around a bramble leaf.
Two views of marigolds flowering which I noticed recently.
