Finger post on the towpath towards the middle of the long summit level of the Staffs and Worcs Canal indicates that it heads north to meet the Trent, and southish for the Severn, joining here the east or southeast heading climb by way of the twenty one locks to the Black Country plateau and the eponymous destination of the Birmingham Canal.
Swan swimming across the West Park boating lake, its wings raised in threat posture to exaggerate its size.
Footage taken with a hand-held camera to test whether I held it steady enough for the software’s image stabilisation effects to produce an acceptable output.
Catkins and cones together, dangling from the same branch of an alder by the Penk at Perton.
Revisit to a group of collared earth stars growing in undergrowth along a path by the Penk at Perton revisited. In less than threw weeks, some of the spore-containing globular peridoles had visibly collapsed still further.
Male goldfinches coming to a garden feeder with niger seed. One of the birds spent a long time eating seed after seed – I cut more footage than I left in.
Pair of mistle thrushes with a territory between the bandstand and the boating lake in West Park. Here they were searching one of the lawns for worms to eat. They were less prone than usual to take flight when people passed, perhaps being in greater need of eating at the end of a spell of hard weather.