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Egyptian goose returns, West Park

Egyptian goose returns, West Park

Egyptian goose, back on the lake at West Park after a couple of weeks when there hasn’t been any sign of it. This must be the same bird which has also been seen at Dunstall Park, hanging out with greylag geese, which are also its preferred associates at West Park.

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Ear fungus, very pale

Ear fungus, very pale

Ear fungus growing on a fallen bough in Himley Plantation, much paler in colour than usual.

Ear fungus, very pale

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Half-seeded: sunflower, Castle Gardens, Bridgnorth

Half-seeded: sunflower

Close-up on a large sunflower in the Women’s Institute patch in Bridgnorth Castle Gardens when about half the seeds had gone

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Boletes growing under trees

Yellow-cracked bolete

Yellow-cracked bolete – one picture is of a mushroom someone had kicked over, showing than on the underside of the cap the spores are released through pores not gills in this genera. The same picture shows how the yellow pores turn blue when bruised.

The final picture in the set is of a lone individual of a different but unidentified bolete species which was growing under the same few trees outside a block of flats, the former Wolverhampton Customs and Excise Office.

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Verdigris mushrooms, city centre

Verdigris mushroom, city centre

Verdigris mushrooms, the colour of their caps strong at first, later more delicate after rain. These were growing on wood-chip mulch near the city centre Sainsbury’s.

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Autumnal maple leaves, Bridgnorth Bylet

Autumnal maple leaves, Bridgnorth Bylet

Vivid autumnal colours from the leaves of a maple on the Bylet at Bridgnorth.