The little grebe already featured a few days ago, here swimming off and showing the so-called powder-puff appearance of its rear feathers.
Just dived in search of another fish, bubbles of air rising to the surface in the rings of ripples it made.
Yellow hazel catkins from a bush in the hedge at Northycote Farm, outlined against one of the rare recent blue skies.
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Oak leaf buds looked like they were just about to open. These were on one of the trees in the wood at Northycote Farm Country Park.
Crinkly ear fungus is one of the few things which grows even in the middle of winter. These were on dead wood in the hedge at Northycote Farm.
Hedge sparrow telling the world “this is my hedge”.
Ram at Northycote Farm, given a pen to itself while the other sheep were in a field nearby.