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Sun about to break through clouds over Sedgley Beacon

Sun about to break through clouds over Sedgley Beacon

The folly and radio aerials mark the silhouetted skyline as Sedgley Beacon beneath a sky where the sun kept breaking through from behind fast-moving clouds.

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Clump of orange peel fungus

Clump of orange peel fungus

Orange peel fungus: the fruiting bodies normally have a little space separating them, so they look like discarded litter. Here they are almost all forming one tight clump.

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Winter flowers: chrysamthemum

December flowers: chrysamthemum

Garden chrysamthemum with distinctive petals looking like purple spikes, flowering through November and December.

December flowers: chrysamthemum

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Frosty, misty morning – view from Compton bridge

Frosty, misty morning - view from Compton bridge

View along the canal seen from the Bridgnorth Road bridge on a misty and frosty morning. The building on the right started life as one of the many mills powered by the Smestow Brook.

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Autumn leaves: liquidambar, West Park

Autumn leaves: liquidambar, West Park

Varied and vivid colours of the leaves on one of the liquidambar bushes in West Park at the end of last month.

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Garden Birds 2014 12 29

Cast in order of appearance: great tit, blackcap, bluetit, blackbirds, bullfinch, robin and jay