Wolves Wild

Large slug heading across a towpath on a damp morning.

Several clumps of giant polypore fungal fruiting bodies growing on a tree root in West Park.

They were darker and more strongly zoned here than they had been a few days previously.

More of the grey spotted amanitas which did well this year.

I noticed these on a lawn in Tettenhall.

The developing fruit (know as mast) on a beech tree.

This was one of a handful of grey spotted amanitas growing under short grass in Bantock Park.

One of the numerous water boatmen skating over the pond in the garden at Wightwick Manor.

Grey spotted amanitas are mushrooms related to the fly agarics familiar from fairy story illustrations.

These were growing on a lawn in front of flats on the Compton Road.

They have been showing there in late summer for several years. In the past I have mistaken them for other related species, panther caps and the blusher.

This seems to have been a good year for grey spotted amanitas. Pictures from other locations to follow soon.

Foxglove seeds ripening on the plant are not instantly recognisable in the way the flowers are.

These were on a very tall plant growing in a shady spot in the Wightwick Manor woods.

Birch brittlegills are russula mushrooms which grow in association with birch trees. These were on a lawn by the road to Pattingham.

Wood mushrooms of different ages growing right by the edge of a path in Himley Plantation.

This young one had attracted a fly.