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West Park magpie, one of a large group feeding on the ground near the boating lake, strutting across short grass.

Pair of turfted ducks – the male, on the left, showing the tuft on the back of the head. These were swimming at Pool Hall Fisheries.

Turkey tail, a bracket fungus with small zoned fruiting bodies which grow in clusters. This patch of turkey tail, on a felled tree trunk in Bantock Park, has vegetation concentrated on some of the zones.

The inconspicuous flowers of some of the yew trees in West Park.

Sheep at Northycote Farm. The weather was miserable the day I visited, and I thought the sheep had suitably sheepish expressions.

For the past several winters there have been scarlet elf cup fungi on a pile of fallen twigs by the former Tettenhall Station by the Railway Walk at Newbridge. The numbers of fruiting bodies have been falling each year, perhaps because there is less and less to feed on in the wood substrate. But they are still there.

This year there is also a fresh patch of the fruiting bodies, a short distance further along the footpath. Maybe these grew from spores spread by the earlier ones.