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A blackbird looks looks for crumbs left behind by the original recepients from the food people had put out for the West Park ducks and geese. Any food is welcome in hard weather.

Holly berries during the recent snowy period.

Witch hazel flowers covered in snow, with snow-covered ground behind. Yet another post on today’s theme: winter-flowering bushes and shrubs in West Park.

Buds of flowers (large, at ends of twigs) and leaves (smaller, on sides of twigs) on a West Park magnolia. Some patches of the lying snow are visible out of focus in the background.

Buds developing in the wintry weather on another West Park bush – this time a laurel.

Flower bud on one of West Park’s rhododendron bushes, the leaves covered in the recent snow.