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Coal fungus – also known as cramp balls and as King Alfred’s cakes – a common fungus found on dead or dying decisuous wood. As inedible as they look.

Ant hills, unmistakable tussucks in the grassy areas of the Wellcombe Hills Country Park in Warwickshire.

Canal basin at Stratford on Avon, early in the morning after snowfall carrying on into the previous night.

Lone fly agaric under the trees by the roadside in the grounds of Compton Hospice. I first noticed it, looking recently emerged, at the start of December. Here, over a month later, it had blackened and shrivelled.

Robin taking a brief pause from singing, perched on a twig of a horse chestnut with leaf buds already beginning to open. Seen on Christmas Eve.

One of the last crab apples on a tree behind Compton Lock, shrivelled and shrunk.