David

Sparse hairs (some other cranesbills look downy) on leaves turning red mark this as a shining cranesbill. This plant was one of several growing by the canal towpath not far from the Dunstall Water Bridge.

A fruit from a horse chestnut from last year, one of several lying in other plant debris in a front garden.

It had perhaps been blown of the tree before it was ripe. The knobbly outer covering had never split to reveal the conker within.

Impressively large earthworm which was moving quickly through the ground-hugging vegetation and leaf litter by the side of the Smestow Valley Railway Walk.

River Severn at Bridgnorth after the heavy rains in the middle of February. The day I got over to the town the water had receded about two feet from its highest level.

Seed head of a tree of heaven, originally from China. Now an ornamental garden tree, partly because of the splashes of colour in winter.

Two lichens growing from a horizontal tree bough. Both are sending out fruiting bodies. Those of the lower set yellow-green lichen are cup shaped. From the other they hang down as multiply forked stems.