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One of the West Park squirrels up close. Most likely on an unsuccessful try at cadging food rather that posing for its portrait.

Purple beautyberries, berries of a beautyberry shrub, purple brightening for a gloomy December. These, on a shrub in West Park, are possibly from Bodinier’s beautyberry, a native of China.

Little grebe swimming up and down a stretch of the canal shaded by Crowther Road wood, drops of water remaining on its back from its frequent dives after fish.

The typically closely-packed cluster of snowberries, growing on a plant climbing a garden fence.

A patch of ivy by the canal towpath at Compton was attracting flies resting the the morning sunlight at the end of last month.

Small stagshorn, a fungus commonly found growing on dead wood. This one was one of the many fungi in the Woodland Trust’s Himley Plantation.