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Ice pellets on a frozen pond

Ice pellets on a frozen pond

Ice pellets were scattered on the ground on the first morning of this month after falling overnight. here some are seen on the ice of the frozen poool in Compton Park, with the burgeoning pondweed below providing a green background.

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Standing on one leg: two herons, West Park

Standing on one leg: heron, West Park

Two herons on West Park’s boating lake island, standing just far enough apart that they could ignore each other’s presence. Both balancing on one leg as they twisted their necks to take care of their feathers.

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Iced: fallen oak leaf

Iced: fallen oak leaf

A fallen oak leaf covered in frost and some of the ice pellets which were thinly scattered on the first morning this month after falling overnight.

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Black-headed gulls in flight, West Park

Black-headed gull in flight, West Park

Flying over the boating lake at West Park, a few of the resident flock of black-headed gulls.

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Gone to seed: sunflower, Castle Grounds, Bridgnorth

Gone to seed: sunflower, Castle Grounds, Bridgnorth

Drooping under the weight of the remaining seeds, a sunflower in the WI garden in Bridgnorth’s Castle Grounds.

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Magpie drinking from puddle, West Park

Magpie drinking from puddle, West Park

One of the bold magpies in West Park taking a drink, and prowling through the next puddle to the one being patronised by a group of Canada geese.

Magpie drinking from puddle, West Park