Last and largest set of doorknockers. Cats and dogs, a swan and a fish. Two elephants, one with a pivoting trunk. The cicada was spotted in its native environment, the south of France. The spooky bat and the palm tree were on neighbouring houses in Bridgnorth’s Low Town, the woodpecker which sounded by banging its beak to its tree in the same row of houses.
A pig, a wolf a deer and a ram join the usual lion in this selection of doorknockers.
A change of pace for Christmas Day: collections of pictures of doorknockers, mostly portraying creatures or plants. Lions heads, invariably male and shown full face, are very popular.
Christmas is coming. So, a robin to be seasonal. A distinct absence of snow or holly berries though. This bird was hopping round the posts on the fence protecting the Bantock Park Pond, back in the spring of 2104.
The bright red and green spiky fronds of a robin’s pincushion gall, a growth caused when a wasp lays its eggs in a rose bush – this one was on a bush in the Barley Field.
One of the little grebes which take up winter territories, dividing the canal from Aldersely to Wightwick between them. This one was at Compton, patrolling the water where the Boots Land Allotments meet the canal.