Category: David

Heron on the bank of the Severn just downstream of the English Bridge, Shrewsbury. A party of mallards are swimming by.

The yellowish tinge of the new growth, the origin of the poetic description of mistletoe as the golden bough, with the old stems and leaves which stay green through the winter, and the ghostly white of the berries.

Female mallard on a buoy at the entrance to the canal basin at Stratford on Avon, spending a long time preening in a secure spot.

Pondweed under a thin skin of ice on the Compton Park pool on a cold morning earlier this month.

Black-headed gull: this one was flying over Perton pool recently.

Long catkins from a silk tassel bush (garrya elliptica) dangling in thick clumps.