David

Here are the greenish (male) catkins of a standard hazel bush.

And here the pinkish catkins of the variant type.

And here the much less conspicuous female parts.

The fruits on this old man’s beard plant are still remaining on the plant from last autumn.

This lichen was setting out fruiting bodies at the end of January.

Nearby, a series of sloe bushes are almost covered in lichen.

Squirrel homes are easiest to spot in winter, when the trees are bare. They look like big and untidy birds nests.

Different mosses (above and below). The forms both of the leaves and the spore pods are very different.

The remains of last autumn’s fruits.