autumn

Thistles have been left around the edges of the fields to provide food for flocks of finches

There are lots of hips and haws which will provide food for migrating redwings and fieldfares later in the autumn

Hawthorn Berries or Haws

Comma butterflies can be very elusive as they sit on branches and look like dead leaves.

Hornbeam keys are abundant and will provide food for birds and small mammals such as field voles and mice.

Harvest mice are leaving their summer breeding nests and move into the hedgerows surrounding the fields for the winter

Buttercups can still be seen flowering in the meadows

Fungi are beginning to show and good numbers of parasol mushrooms can be found near the St Giles graveyard

Hawthorn berries

Parasol Mushroom open

Parasol Mushroom before opening

Sloes, ideal for that sloe gin

The stream on a late autumn afternoon

Black Knap Weed

Small Copper Butterflies can still be seen flying in the autumn sunshine

White Spindles Fungus

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