David

Common jellyspot is a fungus found on dead wood. These were growing on a section of tree trunk placed to discourage parking on the grass verge outside the Pendeford Mill Nature Reserve.

Line of footprints left in the recent snow by a wood pigeon.

Teazle seed-head against the background of the recent snow.

Pussy willow catkins still covered in drops of water after recent rain.

Wood pigeon keeping a wary eye on me, even though we are separated by the width of the canal at Castlecroft.

Two lichens growing on the same bough by a path at Northycote Farm. I thought they looked like miniature seaweeds, marooned inland.