The ever-changing surface of the Severn a few yards downstream of one of the piers of the old bridge across the river at Bridgnorth. When these pictures were taken in late November, the river was high but still a little way from breaking its banks, and flowing very fast.
Four herons, each standing unmoving on one leg, catching the mid-day winter sun. The first one was on the southern shore of West Park’s boating lake island. The other three were all on the southern side of the other island.
Two were perched in different trees, the third in the middle on the ground. Can you spot where all three are in the last pictures in this set?
A sunny winter morning. Dead calm, so no breeze to create ripples in the surface of the canal. So a picture which just focuses on the reflection of the trees on the far shore looks like it has accidentally been turned upside down.
Magpie stepping across short grass in West Park. The bird was one of a pair eating the remains of peanuts which had been left by squirrels.
Razor strop fungus, otherwise known as birch polypores, grow as bracket fungi on (surprise) birch trees. Back in the dim and distant past of a hundred years ago, they were used to give the final sharpening to cut-throat razors.
Something had begun eating these, which were growing on a fallen birch trunk in Himley Plantation.
Little grebe which seems to be settling down for its winter quarters on the canal right by the Wildside Centre.
The bird had just caught a fish which was too big to swallow. It kept jerking its head to throw the fish back in the water, then diving under to catch it again. Perhaps it was trying to see if it would get it down its throat if it could get a different grip.