David

Heron on the big pool at Perton, fishing as it stood in the water by a reed bed, they flying to the island.

Pipe club fungus, around an inch or two tall, so often not very conspicuous in grass, undergrowth and the autumn leaf-fall.

Carrion crows high in trees, on the lookout, masters of all they survey.

Two of the larger species of inkcap mushrooms: glistening inkcaps and common inkcaps (which are actually not as common, at least around here).

Bright colour for the depth of winter. Scarlet elf cups come out at the coldest time of the year, growing on dead wood. These were on a wood-pile where they have been showing for several years, near the Railway Walk at Newbridge.

Hawthorn bush which was particularly heavily laden with haws last month, on the edge of a field in the Smestow Valley nature Reserve.