David

The Birmingham Bull was given a jumper and jeans in the run-up to Christmas this year. Here is a picture without the clothing.

Northycote Farm cock, which was in a rush to get to another part of the hen enclosure.

A reminder that wintry weather doesn’t always mean gales and heavy rain.

This was Wightwick Mill Lock on Christmas Eve 2010, the ground covered in snow and the water almost completely frozen over.

Birds of prey are often mobbed by smaller birds. But it is rarer to see a lone bird doing the mobbing.

Her, one of the buzzards which regularly fly over the Smestow Valley Barley Field is being seen off by a lone carrion crow.

Fallen leaves which had turned the colours of traffic lights, fallen into the Wom Brook, and had been trapped in the algae of the waterfall on the downstream side of the Giggety Lane ford.

Looking across Hinksford Lock on the Staffs & Worcs Canal, with a wooded ridge in the background.