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Verdigris mushrooms, cap dappled

Verdigris mushroom, cap dappled

Verdigris mushrooms, when they first emerge, the colour on the cap is stronger and continous over the entire cap. Usually fades to something like this after they have been out some time. Only a short while needed if there is heavy rain. I don’t remember ever before seeing ones where the surface of the cap has fragmented, leaving the cap dappled with colour.

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Coming in to land, greylag geese, West Park

Coming in to land, greylag geese, West Park

What may be the entirety of the flock of greylag geese at West Park, some seventeen or eighteen birds flying overhead before they disappeared descending over the island to land on the lake.

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Poplar fieldcaps on a tree trunk

Poplar fieldcaps on a tree trunk

Poplar fieldcap mushrooms growing on a tree trunk, possibly a willow rather than a poplar (the fungus grows on either).

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Going, gone: cone flower petals

Going, gone: cone flower petals

Cone flower with the last two petals hanging on; another nearby with only the central cone remaining.

Going, gone: cone flower petals

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Ridge and furrow, Welcombe Hills Country Park

Ridge and furrow, Welcombe Hills Country Park

Ridge and furrow showing clearly on a sunlit autumn morning in Welcombe Hills Country Park outside Stratford on Avon.

Ridge and furrow, Welcombe Hills Country Park

A product of medieval ploughing, frequently visible across the midlands on land which has neither been developed, nor been used for arable farming since.

Ridge and furrow, Welcombe Hills Country Park

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Japanese acer, windy autumn day, West Park

Japanese acer, windy autumn day, West Park

The vivid autumn leaves of one of the Japanese acers in West park, seen on a bright, windy day. From a distance, the tree seemed to have keps all its leaves. Closer, it could be seen that all had been brought down except the ones at the ends of the branches.

Japanese acer, windy autumn day, West Park

As the gusty wind whipped the leaves about, they looked hypnotic.