David

Currently run out of recent pictures to post, so some I’ve dredged up that I never got round to uploading at the time.

One of the must see sights in Berlin Zoo – at least when we were there back in December 2011, was a wildlife show not part of the official exhibits. As it got towards the feeding time in one of the enclosures (pelicans, probably) huge numbers of herons began to assemble in the surrounding trees. They seemed to manage to account for the majority of the fish.

Clumps of moss growing from the bare stone of the top of a garden wall, further decorated by a coating of frost crystals.

A hard frost overnight, and early morning walk with the clear skies leaving bright sunlight. Frost decorating the leaves of flowers in a front garden.

Frost coating the developing berries on an ivy before the morning warmed up a little.

Another exercise in trying to improve my techniques in video filming and editing. Garden birds feeding on sunflower seeds. Most of the visitors are bluetits, but look out for the dunnock.

Shortly after the start of the clip, the traffic noise is loud. I’d just started filming when the binnies arrived for their weekly visit. I cut the footage where they were directly by the garden. But they hadn’t got far down the street before the birds began to come back.

Growing on the same lawn as the wrinkled club fungi, a trooping funnel cap. As the name implies, these often grow in clusters, but this one was on its own.