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Small yellow fungi growing from the lichen-covered cut surface of a tree stump in Bridgnorth’s Castle Grounds recently.

Goosander drake taking off from the water to head a short distance upstream to an alternative fishing spot on the Severn at Shrewsbury.

Lichens have an amazing ability to grow in the most unlikely places, but usually on some form of natural substrate, even if it is the most unpromissing seeming bare rock. These lichens were thriving on the paintwork of a sturdy metal fence.

Pair of goosanders beginning to perform a courtship ritual in the Severn by the English Bridge in Shrewsbury, synchronised swimming in parallel. They broke off from what they were doing when another goosander drake came close.

A touch of winter colour: flowers on a withhazel bush in the Quarry at Shrewsbury late last month.

Two male blackbirds searching for food in the soil below short wet grass in different parts of the Quarry in Shrewsbury. Birds living in popular parks are used to human disturbance, and may be less prone to take flight when a camera is pointed at them.