Wildlife from Wolverhampton and nearby
Wood blewit mushroom growing tightly packed together yesterday. The lilac coloured ones must have only recently emerged and were only a fraction of an inch tall. The clusters with the wide caps had grown larger. Their colour changed to brawn as they matured, with just a slight tinge of lilac. These had grown under tarpaulin in a garden bed.
Hat tip: Mad
Tow male cormorants sitting by the lake at Wollaton Park, Nottingham, not doing very much other than some perfunctory grooming. Suddenly a heron came wading through the water at the edge of the lake, got out on the bank, and stood there with none of the birds seeming to give any attention to any of the others.
Finger post on the towpath towards the middle of the long summit level of the Staffs and Worcs Canal indicates that it heads north to meet the Trent, and southish for the Severn, joining here the east or southeast heading climb by way of the twenty one locks to the Black Country plateau and the eponymous destination of the Birmingham Canal.
Swan swimming across the West Park boating lake, its wings raised in threat posture to exaggerate its size.
Footage taken with a hand-held camera to test whether I held it steady enough for the software’s image stabilisation effects to produce an acceptable output.
Catkins and cones together, dangling from the same branch of an alder by the Penk at Perton.
Revisit to a group of collared earth stars growing in undergrowth along a path by the Penk at Perton revisited. In less than threw weeks, some of the spore-containing globular peridoles had visibly collapsed still further.