The damp but still fairly warm weather means fresh crops of fungi. A recent brisk walk around the Woodland Trust’s Himley Plantation produced a species count in double figures. A patch of common funnel caps looked like they had only recently grown, though some had already been found by a hungry creature.
Ginger coloured lichen above bright green liverwort, growing in a niche on the top of the wall of one of thetwenty-one locks of the Birmingham Canal.
Ginger cat striding along a boat in the forecourt of the former Compton Boatyard, then pausing to clean itself.
Bonnet mycenae growing on wood mulch beside the Severn at Bridgnorth, and mushrooms of another mycena species half-hidden by grass under the hedge by the canal at Castlecroft.
Buzzard perched high in a treetop in Peasley Wood, seen from Wightwick Lock.
Coneflowers, seen as their flowering season comes to an end the petals begin to droop. I liked the colours and textures of these, growing in the Women’s Institute garden of the Castle Grounds, Bridgnorth.
