Category: David

Buds which will soon be opening as this year’s oak leaves, as they were beginning to grow in the middle of January.

The “whale-backed” outline of the Wrekin, seen from a lane on the Shropshire-Staffordshire county boundary.

Cluster of seeds on an ivy, growing at eye level by a towpath. I couldn’t work out why some of the seeds were so wet the water was almost forming a drop, while nearby seeds looked bone dry.

View with the long ridge of the Malvern Hills on the skyline. The well-wooded valley of the Avon and farmland outside Stratford form the nearer subjects.

Footprints of some sort of small mammal in the deep mud of a farm track.

Possibly from the back feet of a squirrel, possibly a weasel.

Pack of gulls circling above Wetland Pool, pausing occasionally to land on the water to find something to eat or perhaps take a drink.