Video of sparrows, blue tits and a robin all using a seed feeder.
Putting some food out regularly helps many garden birds survive hard spells like the present one.
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West Park bandstand in the snow
Pictures taken at the end of last November,the second one a few days after the first when more snow had fallen.
They are such wintry pictures that they seemed right for today.
Happy new year!
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Heron by the towpath
This heron was fishing on the towpath side of the Staffs and Worcs canal during the hard weather at the end of November.
Although it was only a few yards from Compton bridge, it did not appear to have been disturbed for some time.
The bird carried on fishing as I got to within perhaps ten yards of it taking pictures. Only when a large group of ducks came up to see if I had food for them did it depart, flying the shortest possible distance to continue its vigil on the other bank.
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Rosebay willow herb
The winter remains are a mere skeleton of the vigorous plant from the summer.
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Birds on a freezing canal
Swans and cygnets, moorhens and mallards on the ice or the remaining open water on the Staffs and Worcs canal near Compton recently.
Little grebes have returned to the Staffs and Worcs canal like they do every winter.
Even in the hard period when most of the canal froze over, they managed to find enough open water to carry on fishing.
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Alder seeds and catkins
This year’s seeds and next year’s catkins on the same lichen-covered branch.
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Frosty grasses
Grass seed heads given a new form by a frosty coating.
A coot sitting on the frozen lake.
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Frosty umbellifers
With the last few seeds remaining on the plants.
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Strange sheep
This mechanical sculpture by Andy Plant should be a better known sight in Wolverhampton city centre.
Every hour, just after the top of the hour, it performs the routine videoed here on the Art Gallery balcony overlooking Lichfield Street.
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Compton lock
The first water to freeze on this stretch of the Staffs and Worcs canal was inside the historic lock at Compton. Minutes after this first picture was taken, a narrowboat came through and the thin ice was broken.
Pictures two and three were taken several days later, after the heavier snow fall. There was no sign then of ice forming over those stretches of the canal I saw.
