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Canal and Stafford Road railway viaduct, misty morning

Canal and Stafford Road railway viaduct, misty morning

Railway viaduct passing high over the canal near the Stafford Road, all outlines softened in a winter’s morning mist.

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Heron, Shrewsbury, taking off

Heron, Shrewsbury, taking off

The heron of the previous post, rising to fly a short distance upsteam along the Severn.

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Heron, Shrewsbury, river bank

Heron, Shrewsbury, river bank

Heron on the bank of the Severn just downstream of the English Bridge, Shrewsbury. A party of mallards are swimming by.

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Golden bough, with white and green

Golden bough, with white and green

The yellowish tinge of the new growth, the origin of the poetic description of mistletoe as the golden bough, with the old stems and leaves which stay green through the winter, and the ghostly white of the berries.

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Female mallard, preening perch, Stratford

Female mallard, preening perch, Stratford

Female mallard on a buoy at the entrance to the canal basin at Stratford on Avon, spending a long time preening in a secure spot.

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Tangled, trapped: pondweed under ice

Tangled, trapped: pondweed under ice

Pondweed under a thin skin of ice on the Compton Park pool on a cold morning earlier this month.

Tangled, trapped: pondweed under ice