Category: David

Here are the greenish (male) catkins of a standard hazel bush.

And here the pinkish catkins of the variant type.

And here the much less conspicuous female parts.

The fruits on this old man’s beard plant are still remaining on the plant from last autumn.

This lichen was setting out fruiting bodies at the end of January.

Nearby, a series of sloe bushes are almost covered in lichen.

Squirrel homes are easiest to spot in winter, when the trees are bare. They look like big and untidy birds nests.

Different mosses (above and below). The forms both of the leaves and the spore pods are very different.

The remains of last autumn’s fruits.

Perching on the lookout for anything to eat.

In the middle of these mosses growing on the top of a wall, an even more primitive form of plant, a slime.

This gull was bathing to get its feathers in tip top condition against the January cold.

This robin seemed poised to confront not only any other robin, but also any passing people.

A moorhen approaches.

Patches of bullrushes can be found beside all the canals which go through the city – here on the Staffs and Worcs canal in south Staffordshire.