Category: David

Gelatinous bracket fungus, unidentified, growing from a mossy tree stump in the Woodland Trust wood, Himley Plantation.

Various species of seaweed thrown up on the shore by the tide. These were on the rocky beach of Lee bay in north Devon.

Two of the West Park squirrels, each trying to discover where they had hidden one of their caches of food, in the milder weather at the weekend.

Berries on ivy growing by the canal towpath at Compton. The berries had been heavily frosted during the cold night, but the morning sun was beginning to melt the ice crystals.

Swans, flying up high, but the early morning sun is still lighting them from below. It shows their dirty feet and the underparts, where they are still messy from the muddy field they recently left.

Candle snuff grows on dead wood, often on tree stumps or dead roots hidden underground. This was growing downwards on the underside of a fallen tree trunk in Himley Plantation.