Wolves Wild

Lumpy bracket fungus growing on a tree stump in Baggeridge Park. Seen from below it’s like a small labyrinth.

The lumpy upper surface.

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Tawny grisettes with the rounded caps of newly-grown fruiting bodies, which had probably come up overnight.

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Compare the flattened caps of the more mature versions.

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I thought the caps were more the range of colours of egg yolks than tawny.

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Japanese knotweed is one of the most persistent of the introduced species which have become weeds. This one was growing by the Smestow Brook.

Tawny grisettes are a fairly common mushroom which I don’t remember ever seeing before. I’ve noticed them in several places this year.

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These were growing under a birch and an oak by the footpath across Compton Rough.

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All growing in one patch, so presumably all the same species.

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But notice the variation in the colours of the caps.

Small copper butterfly, another of the insects attracted by this morning’s reed flowers.

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Wasp – one of the insects attracted to the reed flowers in the previous post.

Tall reed with pink flowers, growing at the sides of a pond near the road crossing the golf course on Penn Common.

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Seeds beginning to ripen on loosestrife stalks. There’s still just a hint of the stronger purple of the flowers.

Some of the horses which roam loose in Sutton Park.

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These were at Little Bracebridge Pool.

A picture with strong contrasting colours for a Monday morning – a sunflower in a front garden, with a bright blue door as the background.