David

Mosses grow on all sorts of apparently difficult environments. The ones pictured here were growing on the tops of walls beside a busy main road.

The stalks on the moss pictured above are supporting the spore pods.

This male bird coping with the ice on the West Park pool at the weekend, showing the rich colours of his plumange.

Last year’s fruit and this year’s catkins hanging from the same branches back on New Year’s Day.

This little grebe paused to give its feathers a good cleaning after swimming in convoy with a couple of mallards (below).

This magpie’s haughty retreat gives a view of the rich iridescence of feathers which normally appear black.

A robin uses one bird feeder as a perch for its approach to the other feeder.