Wildlife from Wolverhampton and nearby
The stretch of the River Severn by the centre of Shrewsbury seems popular with goosanders spending the daylight hours catching fish. On a recent visit, a mile or so walking along the river bank from just upstream of the Welsh Bridge to just downstream of the English Bridge gave sightings of over a dozen birds.
A tall tree in Stratford on Avon, bare of leaves in winter showing a multiplicity of of mistletoes – at least a dozen bunches.
Brightly-coloured male Carolina duck on the River Severn at Shrewsbury. This lone Carolina was in the midst of a group of twenty or so mallards, all of them on the look out for offerings of bread from anyone walking in the Quarry on a winter morning.
Exotic-looking conifer in the border of the Castle Grounds in Bridgnorth, its dense needles covered in water after a rainy night.
View along the canal looking towards Tunstall Water Bridge on a misty January morning. The bright sun had not yet melted the frost left overnight on the grass.
Common buzzard perching on one of the trees on island in the West Park lake recently, alert and perhaps keeping an eye out for prey.