Grey spotted amanita mushrooms, growing on a front lawn where they appear every year. Although they had not been up long, they had already been nibbled in several places, possibly by slugs or snails.
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Parasol mushrooms, recently emerged
Groups of parasol mushrooms, growing under a small group of deciduous and coniferous trees, seen probably the morning after they appeared.
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Pattern: straw bales
Straw bales stacked up, for once not sealed in the ubiquitous black plastic. A fresh sprouting of grass on the top of the bales breaks the regularity of the pattern.
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Not so sheepish
A pair of sheep industriously muching up grass while keeping in the shade of an oak. Another footpath crossing a nearby field, where one of the flock was keeping me under observation.
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Faded glory: parasol mushrooms
These parasol mushrooms must have been around for some time undisturbed – neither kicked over, nor nibbled by any of the woodland fauna.
One of the Northycote Farm flock of jackdaws, patches of white in its feathers. It was searching for morsels to eat on the ground of one of the pig enclosures, then perching on one of the fence posts nearby.