A break from real wildlife for Christmas Day. Instead, representations of various animals I’ve come across over the years.
The only real seasonal member of this set is the robin, collection box for the RSPB outside the hide on their Bowling Green reserve on the Exe estuary.
The spouting whale was a bar sign on a narrow side street in Cologne city centre. The goat’s head doorknocker (sinister looking) on a house down a narrow and cobbled alley.
The cat is one one of a series of bespoke park benches in the centre of Great Malvern, commemorating famous one-time visitors to the area. Apparently Florence Nightingale was keen both on the drastic-sounding Victorian water cure and on cats.
Head along the Staffs and Worcs canal out of Wolverhampton heading north. Pass under the M54. On a lawn coming down to the canal bank, the shiny giraffe emerges from behind a tree.