David

English Bridge, Shrewsbury seen from the riverside footpath. It was mid-morning, but because it was Boxing Day the road wasn’t busy with the usual traffic.

On a freezing Boxing Day morning, cormorants pausing from fishing in the Severn and preening to oil their feathers before they have another go.

A goosander swimming upstream on the Severn at Shrewsbury recently. The impressionist effect isn’t due to any clever photographic technique, nor to photoshop filters. Instead, it’s an accidental result of the arm supporting the camera also having a crutch dangling from it.

Views looking away from the water while walking on the riverside footpath of the Quarry in Shrewsbury on a bright but frosty morning recently (Boxing Day, as it happens).

A little grebe busy hunting for fish in the Severn at Shrewsbury on Christmas Day.

A wood blewitt on Christmas Day. The strength of its colour indicated that it had almost certainly come up on the previous cold night.