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The full opening of lesser celandine flowers is for me one sign that spring is finally really arriving.

These were in a sheltered front garden in the first week of March.

Great tit and blue tit grabbing some seeds from the same feeder at Northycote Farm.

Velvet shanks which have already been around for a few days. They have something, perhaps a mould, growing on their upper surface.

These were growing in the same place at the same time as those in the previous post.

Velvet shank fungi are among the few brightly-coloured growing things in the depths of winter.

These were growing from a tree trunk fallen across the platform near the Smestow Valley Ranger Station a month ago. Although they had only freshly grown, something had already begun to nibble at them.

Mahonia early-spring flowers, some still as unopened buds, others already losing a few petals.

Flowers beginning to come out on another of the shrubs in West Park.