David

The winter remains are a mere skeleton of the vigorous plant from the summer.

Swans and cygnets, moorhens and mallards on the ice or the remaining open water on the Staffs and Worcs canal near Compton recently.

Little grebes have returned to the Staffs and Worcs canal like they do every winter.

Even in the hard period when most of the canal froze over, they managed to find enough open water to carry on fishing.

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

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

A coot sitting on the frozen lake.