Part of the fallow deer herd at the National Trust Property of Charlecote Park, gathered together on a cold, rainy winter day.
Tufted ducks, West Park, portraits
Some of the tufted ducks on the lake at West Park. Males, with different angles of the light showing the iridescence of their feathers or not, and a pair swimming together.
Jersey kale in winter
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Jersey kale in the garden at Anne Hathaway’s Cottage, Shottery, Stratford on Avon. The plant is also known as walking stick kale (or cabbage) because its long stem can be so used.
Heads down (shovellers feeding)
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.
View from the old bridge, Newbridge, misty winter morning
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.
Misty winter morning, the Quarry, Shrewsbury
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.