Wolves Wild

Female cross spider: previously featured when her web was in a more disturbed location.

She is getting bigger as egg-laying time approaches. In view of the current hysteria in the press, she is harmless, except to the small flies which get trapped in her web.

Unidentified fungus growing in the stump of a tree in a garden right by the pavement on Compton Road.

These were the best views I could get, leaning over the garden wall.

Cock with iridescent feathers which was spending a morning resting in a corner of Penkridge churchyard, in a spot backing on to Church Farm.

Tranquil-looking pool at Tong.

Hard to imagine from the picture that the busy A41 is right behind the hedge, with a constant stream of traffic, much of it heavy lorries.

Bracket fungus growing on one of the trees on the edge of Gospel Oak Common. It was possibly Lenzites betulina.

Small puffball in short grass providing food, perhaps for a squirrel.

Sandstone bridge which carries a lane over the Penk.

The bridge crosses the river just upstream from Penkridge. It was built in the eighteenth century, and is Grade II listed.

Magpie in one of the trees on Tettenhall Upper Green. It seemed to be under the impression that I wanted to grab whatever it was that it was eating.

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More recent buttercap mushrooms, this time growing under trees in Bantock Park.

The name is supposedly because touching the caps gives a similar sensation to butter.

Another stroll by the Chapel Ash roundabout, another fly agaric mushroom had popped up its head in the canes.

It had appeared long enough ago for something to have had a good go at eating it.