David

Deceiver mushrooms covered in frost. Growing on wood-chip mulch, pictured on the chilly morning of Christmas Day.

Snow a few days ago, a fat ball feeder. House sparrows were the main customers, as they have been all this winter

A tight cluster of sulfur tuft mushrooms hiding under a rhododendron bush in West Park, a spot where some grow about this time every year.

This picture taken before the recent spell of snow and ice. The mushrooms will still be there – this is one of the minority of species which can survive freezing solid then thawing out again.

They’ve melted away not – perhaps they realised that lockdown number three was coming. Here are a few snowmen I noticed on my walks in the past few days, and one snow dog for variety.

Snail (or perhaps slug) trails on a window pane formed the nucleus for frost to crystallise on a winter morning recently.

Snow lying after Christmas; bird feeders busier than ever. A dunnock spends some time eating sunflower hearts. Magpies and wood pigeons on the ground, gathering the grain spilled from the feeders by smaller birds.