Stopped by a mature ivy hedge on the Parkland Walk yesterday morning to see who was about. It was jolly busy! 🌄😊 Hedera helix Araneus diadematus Bombus sp. Cornu aspersum Eupeodes luniger #365DaysWild 🌸🕷️🐝🐌 #WildflowerHour #FatSpiderFortnight

For autumn colours, the bright red of this Pride of India supported by the dark crimson of a Plum tree behind. New River Path, Haringey, North London. Koelreuteria paniculata Prunus sp. #365DaysWild 🌳🍂

A striking growth of Honey Fungus from inside this dead Horse Chesnut in Alexandra Park. Anyone knows if common for this species to grow so high up the trunk of infected trees? Here's reaching 4m high. Armillaria sp. #365DaysWild 🍄 #LondonFungi

Crouching to have a look at these calamint flowers, I accidentally flushed a very late flying Mint Moth, who went to perch nearby. Clinopodium sp. Pyrausta aurata #365DaysWild 🌸🦋 #WildWebsWednesday

Marmalade Hoverfly having just landed on the tip of a Buddleja leaf. Last Saturday on the Parkland Walk, North London. Episyrphus balteatus Buddleja davidii #365DaysWild #WildWebsWednesday

Spied this Common Rough Woodlouse completing its moult. Found it yesterday morning in the crevice of the bark of a Horse Chesnut in Alexandra Park. Porcellio scaber Aesculus hippocastanum #365DaysWild #WildWebsWednesday

Eastwards from the Blandford Hall area in Alexandra Park earlier this morning.

Tiny fruitbodies on the boughs of a Field Maple in Alexandra Park. Probable Mycena pseudocorticola, I've been kindly advised. Mycena sp. Acer campestre #365DaysWild 🍄🌳 #LondonFungi

Red Cracking Bolete (?) this morning after the drizzle near the Rose Garden in Alexandra Park. Pores and not gills under the caps of these mushrooms. Xerocomellus sp. #365DaysWild 🍄 #LondonFungi

Clusters of Coral Spot blobs appearing on coppiced branches in Highgate Wood. Nectria cinnabarina #365DaysWild 🍄 #LondonFungi

Loving the rain! Arion sp. #365DaysWild ☔🐌

Likely a so-called Missing Sector Orbweb Spider, Zygiella x-notata, given her location tucked in my kitchen window frame. Common yet charming little spider in any case. Zigiella sp. #365DaysWild 🕷️ #Arachtober

Thirty-first of October and this London Hollyhock in full bloom... Alcea rosea #365DaysWild 🌸

Frosty Bonnets sprouting autumn after autumn from the same Horse Chesnut in Alexandra Park. (Note the characteristic granular texture of cap and stem as well as the sucker-like stem base.) Mycena adscensdens Aesculus hippocastanum #365DaysWild 🍄 #LondonFungi #WildWebsWednesday

From a sunny evening a few days ago, this nectar-feeding male mosquito who went to perch on a rose hip in Wood Green Cemetery. I was glad in the end I managed one shot with his feathery antennae more or less in focus. Culex sp. Rosa sp. #365DaysWild 🌹🦟 #WildWebsWednesday

Into November and brambles in London still blooming and bearing fruit... Rubus sp. #365DaysWild 🌸

Following the rain, a spell of sun shining on these young Deceiver mushrooms this morning in Alexandra Park, London. ID notes: fibrous stems, bit hairy around the base, orange cap in wet weather. Laccaria sp. #365DaysWild 🍄

Stroma of Candlesnuff Fungus, also called Stag's Horn, growing on a rotting stump in Alexandra Park. Xilaria hypoxylon #365DaysWild 🍄

Spotted this Gadwall drake at the Boating Lake in Ally Park earlier this morning - an unusual species at the pond. What is more, he's paired with a female Mallard! Mareca strepera Anas platyrhynchos #365DaysWild 🦆 Dominic Mitchell #LondonBirds

Egyptian Geese on the snow, earlier this morning at the Boating Lake in Alexandra Park. Alopochen aegyptiaca #365DaysWild 🦆