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Yellow yarrow flowers still going strong in late December. This unusual colour is probably an escaped garden variety.

The livestock isn’t just insects at the Stratford on Avon Tropical Butterfly Farm. This watchful iguana is one of a pair which sometimes show themselves.

Blewits, mushrooms which can still be spotted growing into the winter, and a favourite with wild food enthusiasts. When young, they have a faint colour which some guidebooks decribe as blueish – it looks more lilac to me. These may have been wood blewits, as they were on woodland floor.

Young heron at what seems to be a favoured spot, wading in the Avon at Stratford and catching small fish.

Looking very tranquil for a Wolverhampton city centre site, Anglers’ Pool in Fowler’s Park recently.

Pair of tufted ducks on the lake at West Park, with their characteristic tufts of feathers at the back of the head. Although their plumages are almost monochrome, the male’s is as in many species, easier to spot with its bright white area.