Category: David

Dangling clusters of cones, high on the conifer tree.

Yet more of the non-insect livestock at the Stratford on Avon Tropical Butterfly Farm: Chinese quail spent their time skulking in the vegetation and emerging briefly to get some of the grain which had been left out for them.

Common autumn fungi with a season which seems to be extending into a mild winter fungi: tawny funnel caps, a woodland species.

Wagtail hunting for insects on a pavement, ignoring the roadside instruction to look left.

Tansy flowering, bringing a touch of bright yellow to a meadow late in December.

Heron high in a tree a short distance from Wightwick lock, looking like it was dozing heron. Aware of what was going on, watchful of people and dogs passing on the opposite side of the canal, but very reluctant to move.