David

Long-tailed tits searching for insects to eat in the willows and alders at the edge of the swollen Severn in the Quarry at Shrewsbury.

The River Severn at Shrewsbury, swollen with the waters of storms Arwen and Barra, miniature whirlpools continually generated by the riverbank

Redlead roundhead mushrooms growing on woodchip mulch. Pictures taken on a revisit, seven days after this series when they had recently emerged.

The Wye at Hereford last August, seen from the old bridge across the river. In the distance there’s a man standing, midstream. He was fly fishing.

Christmas Day 2014. a white Christmas and a flying visit from a green woodpecker.

More pictures from earlier Decembers today. These magpie inkcaps appeared for several years in the Castle Grounds park in Bridgnorth, brought in on the wood chip mulch. The fungi must have consumed all they can extract – there’s been no sign of the mushrooms for a couple of years now.