More birds on West Park lake

Video of Canada geese, ducks and coots on the boating lake at West Park, Wolverhampton, the morning after the first light fall of snow.

Heron in the reeds

Heron

This heron, whose pictures were taken within minutes of the one featured a few days ago, was standing calmly in a patch of reeds a couple of hundred yards further downstream on the canal that the other.

Heron

It gave no sign of wanting to take flight to avoid the disturbance on the other bank.

Heron

Goose drinking on a freezing lake

A cross goose looks like it is drinking a lot of water as it swims on the partially frozen lake in West Park, Wolverhampton.

A mixed bunch of berries

Nightshade and ivy berries

These ivy and woody nightshade berries have become intertwined, looking like the result of a weird genetic modification.

Birds on a freezing lake

Video of geese, moorhens, coots and a mallard on the rapidly freezing lake in West Park yesterday.

Alder

Alder catkins

The new catkins (top), seeds (middle picture) and turning leaves were all pictured on the same tree on the same day.

Alder seeds

Alder leaves