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Squirrel prospecting for treasure

Squirrel prospecting for treasure

This squirrel quickly realised that I wasn’t one of the mugs ready to give it peanuts. So it turned away and began prospecting through the leaf litter for some it had buried earlier.

Squirrel prospecting for treasure

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Jay eating sycamore seeds

Jay eating sycamore seeds

Jay high in a sycamore tree, systematically trying to eat as many of the seeds as it could.

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Brown, yellow, green: oak leaves in autumn

Brown, yellow, green: oak leaves in autumn

Oak leaves at the end of a twig, changing colour before they were blown off the tree.

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The moose sings again

The moose sings again

Singing moose on one of the drinks stalls on Birmingham Christmas Market. For the past couple of years, it’s been showing its age.

Now it looks like its been restored, and had a new sound system. So it;s back swaying its head, opening and closing its mouth as it sings and speaks, in English and in German, adding to the atmosphere of the market.

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Wood blewit, Underhill, Bridgnorth

Wood blewit, Underhill, Bridgnorth

Wood blewit mushroom growing on the lawn in front of the Lavington’s Hole section of the cliff at Underhill, Bridgnorth, recently.

The fungus was already beginning to lose the delicate lilac colour, which turns brownish, starting, as here, from the centre.

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Jackdaws seeing intruder off, West Park

Jackdaws seeing intruder off, West Park

A couple of jackdaws high in one of the West Park trees, objecting vocally and vociferously to the presence of another bird, then settling down after it had gone.

Jackdaws seeing intruder off, West Park