Wildlife from Wolverhampton and nearby
Pure white, small mushrooms – snowy waxcaps. Waxcaps are a genus of small mushrooms, usually less than an inch tall. Strongly coloured: different species can be red, yellow, green, black or, here, white. Grow on poor soil with short grass or mossy cover.
The textured white of the head and neck feathers of one of the swans on the lake at West Park.
On a frosty morning recently a small flock of starlings seemed to be grazing alongside one of the sheep in a Lower Penn field.
Crowd of bonnet mycenae mushrooms growing on wood chippings by the Severn at Bridgnorth – the buildings in the background in one of the pictures are on the other bank of the river.
Mallards swimming line abreast on the algae-covered water of the main pool at Pendeford Mill on a misty autumn morning.
Clusters of tiny purple berries on a beautyberry (callicarpa) bush in West Park.