David

This male bird coping with the ice on the West Park pool at the weekend, showing the rich colours of his plumange.

Last year’s fruit and this year’s catkins hanging from the same branches back on New Year’s Day.

This little grebe paused to give its feathers a good cleaning after swimming in convoy with a couple of mallards (below).

This magpie’s haughty retreat gives a view of the rich iridescence of feathers which normally appear black.

A robin uses one bird feeder as a perch for its approach to the other feeder.

Thanks to reliable bird feeders, this male blackbird has kept well fed through the recent hard spell.