The turkeytail is a very colourful bracket fungus that grows throughout the year, but is at its best in the autumn. Its circular caps can be seen growing in tiers on trees and dead wood.

This purply-brown seaweed is a common feature on our rocky shores and on our dinner plates.

The grayling is one of our largest brown butterflies and a master of disguise - its cryptic colouring helps to camouflage it against bare earth and stones in its coastal habitats and on inland…

This common fungus puffs out clouds of spores when it's mature.

A rare breeder in the UK, this sooty-coloured bird is as at home on an industrial site as it is on a rocky cliff face.

This brightly-coloured beetle is often found feeding on flowers on warm days in late spring and summer.