David

Two of the West Park magpies: one above me in a tree, the other giving clearer views as it stalked along the ground.

On a cold but sunny morning, the bright light was emphasising the bright blue and the green iridescence of their feathers.

Deceiver mushrooms (Laccaria laccata), so called because they are fairly variable in appearance and easy to confuse with several other small brown species. Less likely to be a problem at this time of year, when there are only a few other types to be seen.

Robin on a garden fence, only two yards or so from me, singing while its feathers were all fluffed up against the cold.

Dryad’s saddles, bracket fungi. Three clustered together on a fallen log by the Railway Walk.

Some of the black-headed gull flock at West Park, on the tops of fence posts and along the shore of the lake, lined up in two rows.

In front gardens on residential streets around here, yuccas which are treating the middle of the hardest winter for several years as their flowering season.