David

These waxwings were in a group of eight which seemed to be hawking after insects from trees opposite Tettenhall Lower Green a few days ago.

They were probably a detatchment of the larger group spending some time in the Claregate area.

The remains of some of the summer’s vegetation on Barley Field, coated in frost and lighted by the sun on a December morning.

Gulls (along with ducks, geese and other water birds) gather by the island in the Severn at Bridgnorth.

This is a lesser black backed gull.

Here is an adult black-headed gull. The first picture is of a younger individual of the same species.

The island itself, with the cliff leading up to High Town in the background. When I took this picture, the other water birds all seemed to have headed off elsewhere.

The last remanants of a one-time fence next to the Birmingham Canal, frost-decorated during the cold spell in the middle of last month.

Pampas grass in a front garden, with a sprinkling of frost on a cold morning recently.

Picture taken heading up the Birmingham Canal towards the city centre during the cold spell last month.

The viaduct is carrying the railway to Shrewsbury and beyond. Through the viaduct arch is the Stafford Road, and, in the far distance, the other railway viaduct carrying the line north through Stafford.