Another in the continuing series of mushrooms which are so tiny they can only be spotted by close inspection of the short grass in which they are growing. This one was glistening with water formed by the melting of the frost which had settled on it the previous night.
This feeding party of black-headed gulls had a couple of jackdaws as hangers-on. They were spending an unworried Sunday using the Wolves training ground as a dining area; secure in the knowledge that I was the other side of the fence.
I’m not very sure of this identification. This mushroom was all on its own. Clouded agarics normally grow in a ring. Pictured mid-November.
The “beards” are feathery structures which develop as the seeds ripen (top and bottom pictures).
These pictures of seeds at various stages of ripeness were taken at the same time, and are of seeds on different branches of the same plant, a garden plant which is escaping over a wall.
Close-up views, complete with street litter, of some honey fungus. This is a common parasite of trees. It is often found on tree stumps, as here.
After a cold night, the frost on these leaves was trapped on the downy growths on their surface.
This red admiral was sunbathing on a brick wall in the middle of November.
These were growing in the same short grass as yesterday’s mushroom.
The first picture is of a different individual: these are two views of the same toadstool. They and others which wer visible almost certainly sprang up from one connected network of fungus under the ground.
This tiny delicate mushroom was growing in cropped grass, its cap on a level with the ends of the grass leaves.
