Wolves Wild

A carrion crow perching on the top twig of a bare tree to keep an eye out for opportunities or dangers.

A hardy daisy still flowering in East Park earlier this week despite the hard frosts.

A hawthorn whose leaves haven’t fallen, so the leaves had a heavy layer of frost yesterday morning.

Wintry scenes just a short walk from the centre of Wolverhampton.

These pictures in East Park were taken at the start of this week.

Umbellifer leaf covered in frost, pictured the first morning this winter I got out early enough to take pictures before the sun had melted the frost.

I was amazed to see that the same plant was still flowering: picture in a couple of days.

Barley Field in the Smestow Valley nature reserve, under mist and frost early yesterday morning.

The view across one of the ponds looking towards the house in the distance at Wightwick Manor recently.

Pictures from a re-visit exactly a week later to the fly agarics which feature here.

Rain has washed away most of the red colour from the caps, which are a bit more nibbled.

Mushrooms growing in the wood at Wightwick Manor recently.

They were growing among leaf-litter …

… and further camouflaged as more falling leaves landed on them.

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Glistening inkcaps, and indeed all inkcaps, deliquesce as they loose their spores.

The flesh of their caps blackens, then disintegrates.