Some of the shovellers on West Park lake, their numbers currently increased by wild birds staying where there is a reliable food source for the winter.
The birds seem to have adopted a feeding method where two, three or occasionally more of them swim around following one another in a circle, heads under the water to scoop or shovel up food.
Looking down the canal towards Comptob from the canal bridge at Newbridge on a recent morning. The winter mist, thicker in the Smestow valley, softens even nearby things.
Blurred outlines and muted colours of everything seenthrough a winter morning mist – views in Shrewsbury’s large park in the bend of the Severn, the Quarry.
Tufted ducks, females and one male, contorting themselves as they preened while swimming on the lake in West Park recently.
Scarlet elf cup fungi have been growing on the same pile of fallen wood near the Railway Walk at Newbridge for several winters now. These pictures were taken on cold mornings which left traces of frost or ice on some of the fruiting bodies.
Slim-looking magpie standing on a well-rotted old tree stump in West Park recently. Although I was looking from behind, it was still watching me warily.