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Wightwick Mill Lock, in the distance here.

Closer

The snow adds to the illusion that the lock is deep in the countryside.

Clouded agaric mushrooms growing amid the debris of the leylandii trees they were growing under. Spotted when passing a front garden.

The ground under leylandiis often doesn’t have anything interesting to look at. Occasionally, as here, there are some determined fungi.

Snowman by the road in Compton, complete with (snow) top hat, monocle and bow tie.

The mistlethrush (previous post) decided it needed to cross the road to take up guard closer to its rowan berries.

Shortly after the mistlethrush of the previous post arrived, it was followed by a party of the waxwings which it was on guard against.

One of this group landed in the same tree, to be watched with suspicion.

A mistlethrush perches high in a birch tree, on watch to protect the rowan berries in its territory from a flock of waxwings.