Video of chaffinches, sparrows, robins and a blackbird getting seeds from a bird table in a Wolverhampton garden.
Birds need food and unfrozen water to get through big freezes like this winter.
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Railway walk and meccano bridge
Railway walk seen from the path into the Barley Field, looking towards Meccano bridge.
Meccano bridge seen from the canal towpath.
Smestow valley kestrel
This kestrel landed on one of the conifers behind Compton lock to use it as a lookout spot just as I was walking past.
Because of the slippery conditions underfoot, I had only brought out a moderate telephoto lens.
Snowscape – Smestow valley
Railway embankment
Staffs and Worcs canal near Compton lock
These pictures feature the front and rear ends of the same moored narrowboat.
Rosebay willowherb weighed down by snow
Growing right by the umbellifers pictured on the 14th.
Snow on ivy berries
During the snowy spell, the ivy berries I saw were either covered only by a small cap of snow, as here, or completely hidden in a blanket of white.
Compton lock: snowy scene
The lock icing up just before Christmas.
Snowy crab apples
From the tree by Compton lock.
Fruits on the same tree were pictured sprinkled with frost in an earlier post.
Snow-covered sloes
Another episode in what has turned out to be a series recording the changing appearance this year of berries on the sloe bushes between the Railway Walk and Barley Field in the Smestow Valley Nature Conservation area.
