A single fly agaric mushroom standing out over short grass by the perimeter path in West Park. There had been others, but they had been kicked over and stamped on.
Goldfinch busy eating seeds on a bird feeder outside a block of flats, not quite showing its head.
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Autumn fungi flush – blackening waxcap
A blackening waxcap, caught as it was just about beginning to change colour. Right next to it there was a snowy waxcap.
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Colours of autumn – ginkgoes going
A row of ginkgoes, planted along the pavement of Compton Road, opposite the former Eye Hospital. A welcome distraction from the continuing dereliction of the hospital.
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Colours of autumn – crow high in tree
Brown leaves and blue sky and the glossy black feathers of a carrion crow high in a tree.
An outbreak of small bracket fungi on the trunk of a tree which had been felled by the Railway Walk at Newbridge. It could be turkey tail, but the colours don’t look quite right.