Wolves Wild

Sweet chestnut with its showing through its spiky outer covering, lying where it fell among the leaf litter in the woods at Northycote Farm.

The downstream of the two pools the Penk flows through as it heads across the Perton estate.

Mushrooms growing through a thick carpet of moss which was covering a fallen tree trunk.

Candlesnuff fungus, also called stagshorn, is a common fungus found on dead wood including tree stumps from autumn and through to winter.

These were growing at the edge of the Railway Walk as it passed through Compton.

Three views of a large cluster of small puffballs which were growing in the churchyard in Donington, Shropshire.

The church tower is just visible, out of focus, in the first picture.

Lichens grow on many surfaces, as long as they can get enough moisture and the air is clean enough. But I never previously noticed any growing on moss.

This miniature ecology was on the wall of the churchyard at Penkridge.

The Waxcaps now look completely black …

or are well on the way to doing so.

They are also more ragged and battered.

In contrast with the mushrooms in the previous post, these Waxcaps are further along the process of losing their yellow.

Waxcaps – tiny mushrooms which are bright yellow when they first appear, and gradually turn black.

These not yet at full height.

Just showing traces of beginning to turn colour.

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Snail on the leaf of a bramble at the edge of the woods at Perton.