Category: David

Unidentified, elderly bracket fungus on a fallen tree. By turning the trunk slightly, it was possible to see both the lower and upper surfaces of the bracket.

Heron fishing in the canal in the shadow of the Oxley prefab houses.

Its plumes dangle prominently as the breeding season appoaches.

Another cup-shaped fungus. This one takes its name from one of the places it is most often found.

Another of its preferred habitats is growing on sandbags. I noticed these over a garden wall.

I couldn’t get to touch these, but the species name and the common German name both describe them as waxy.

Ice which had taken on shapes rather like flower petals at a damp patch in Perton woods recently.

A pair of tufted ducks on the main pool at Perton. The male with the distinctive tuft at the back of the head.

The female’s plumage is less striking, which is quite common among bird species.

The little grebe already featured a few days ago, here swimming off and showing the so-called powder-puff appearance of its rear feathers.

Just dived in search of another fish, bubbles of air rising to the surface in the rings of ripples it made.

Yellow hazel catkins from a bush in the hedge at Northycote Farm, outlined against one of the rare recent blue skies.

Oak leaf buds looked like they were just about to open. These were on one of the trees in the wood at Northycote Farm Country Park.

Crinkly ear fungus is one of the few things which grows even in the middle of winter. These were on dead wood in the hedge at Northycote Farm.

Hedge sparrow telling the world “this is my hedge”.