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Northycote Farm cock, which was in a rush to get to another part of the hen enclosure.

A reminder that wintry weather doesn’t always mean gales and heavy rain.

This was Wightwick Mill Lock on Christmas Eve 2010, the ground covered in snow and the water almost completely frozen over.

Birds of prey are often mobbed by smaller birds. But it is rarer to see a lone bird doing the mobbing.

Her, one of the buzzards which regularly fly over the Smestow Valley Barley Field is being seen off by a lone carrion crow.

Fallen leaves which had turned the colours of traffic lights, fallen into the Wom Brook, and had been trapped in the algae of the waterfall on the downstream side of the Giggety Lane ford.

Looking across Hinksford Lock on the Staffs & Worcs Canal, with a wooded ridge in the background.

Lactarius britannicus is a species of milk-cap mushroom sufficiently uncommon to lack an English name despite its striking appearance.

Like all milk-caps, a milky liquid seeps out when the flesh is cut or broken. In this species the liquid is initially milky in colour, but then turns yellow – best seen on a handkerchief.

Some reference sources claim that Lactarius britannicus should be identified with Lactarius fulvissimus. The fulvissimus species has a cap which gets pale at the rim .