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The start of this month, and a heavy frost which almost looked like snow from a distance in some places – none of them near to where this robin was displaying itself.

Swan family swimming on the canal away from Wightwick towards Compton. Unusually, there seem to be two different generations of young in the convoy.

The adult pair are in the lead. Next comes a cygnet from the current year’s brood, still with the juvenile brown parches in its plumage. Tail-end charlie seems to be the survivor of the previous year’s crop. Plumage adult white, but a bill which seems still to be changing to the orange colour of a mature bird.

Some wrinkled club fungi, probably fairly recently emerged. The larger specimens were in the grounds of the Masonic Hall on Tettenhall Road (visible from the pavement). The smaller, growing under one of the conifers in West Park.

Sequence of pictures of a magpie flying by above Northycote Farm.

Two different species of waxcap mushrooms spotted earlier this month, both seen while walking along a busy main road into Wolverhampton, growing at the front of neighbouring properties.

Two swan families seen on a frosty morning in Perton, one by the smaller pool, the others by the footpath along the Penk between the two pools.