More autumnal fruits

We're having a fine spell of weather, and it's good to make the most of autumn. Here's a sloe hiding away in the still green leaves of a blackthorn thicket (and now helping to make some sloe gin for 2010).

These red berries are the fruit of the honeysuckle, a plant that becomes very common in our Atlantic woods if the grazing pressure is not too high.

This birch seed is halfway gone. Sticking out from the end of a twig the seed gradually disperses everytime the wind blows. You can see individual seeds at the top of the stalk waiting to go, then some bare stalk where the wind has already done its work, and a cluster of seed at the bottom still waiting for the breeze.

This acorn is also perfectly ripe and just waiting for an excuse to part company with the parent oak tree