David

Small group of Sedgely Beacon carrion crows which landed, one to a tree, on the slender tree tops of a small birch plantation.

Icy margin of one of the pools formed by a widening of the brook through the nature reserve by the i54 industrial estate.

Magpie in some guttering at the edge of a roof, poised ready for take-off.

Winter flowers opening in January – clumps of snowdrops from Bantock Park, and one clump from a small island in the Wom Brook at Wombourne.

Muscovy ducks at Mary Stevens Park, Stourbridge. I counted seventeen birds, moving round and spread out, so I might not have included the complete set.

Winter flowers beginning to open in late January. These purple crocus were in the Wob Brook Nature Reserve, Wombourne.