David

View across the canal just outside Castlecroft. Remarkably rural-seeming views can be seen just a few minute’s walk from Wolverhampton’s city limits.

Magnolia buds just beginning to open. Their fur-like covering seems to belong to a small mammal.

One of the greylag geese on West Park boating lake, attracted to the shore by someone throwing bread for the birds.

A sight which probably won’t be on show many more times until next year now. A thistle with its new growth covered in early-morning frost.

Female flowers on one of the yew trees in West Park. The male flowers grow on separate trees.

Fungus with a shape resembling a miniature column about a centimetre high, with a depression at the top. I haven’t been able to find anything looking even vaguely similar to in the field guides I have.

It was growing on the top of a tree stump by the gateway at Compton Hospice, alongside the commoner turkey tail fungus.