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Alder seeds and catkins

Alder seeds and catkins

This year’s seeds and next year’s catkins on the same lichen-covered branch.

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Frosty grasses

Frosted grass

Grass seed heads given a new form by a frosty coating.

Frosted grass

Frosted grass

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Coot

Coot

A coot sitting on the frozen lake.

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Frosty umbellifers

Umbellifer seedhead

With the last few seeds remaining on the plants.

Umbellifer seedhead

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Strange sheep

This mechanical sculpture by Andy Plant should be a better known sight in Wolverhampton city centre.

Every hour, just after the top of the hour, it performs the routine videoed here on the Art Gallery balcony overlooking Lichfield Street.

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Compton lock

Compton lock

The first water to freeze on this stretch of the Staffs and Worcs canal was inside the historic lock at Compton. Minutes after this first picture was taken, a narrowboat  came through and the thin ice was broken.

Compton lock

Pictures two and three were taken several days later, after the heavier snow fall. There was no sign then of ice forming over those stretches of the canal I saw.

Compton lock