This heron is probably the same one pictured in the post on New Year’s Eve.
It was (again) staying on the towpath bank of the canal very near to Compton bridge.
A leading light in the Smestow Valley Bird Group suggested that someone may be feeding it in this hard weather.
This is the time of year when old man’s beard should be looking like whispy white hairs which give rise to its name.
But not, as here at the end of November, when snow is resting on all exposed parts of the plant.
The bridge where Smestow Valley railway walk crosses the canal, after the first light fall of snow.
This group of magpies were socialising together despite the hard weather just before Christmas.
The vivid colour of the leaves of this tree mark it out as non-native.
The tree was still brightening up its corner of West Park despite the frost and snow at the end of November.
This line of gulls was on the ridge of a snowy roof by the Staffs and Worcs canal at Castlecroft recently.