These trees in and around the Smestow valley were pictured a few days before Christmas
The snow and the overcast sky have drained the images of almost all colour.
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Birds on a bird table
Video of chaffinches, sparrows, robins and a blackbird getting seeds from a bird table in a Wolverhampton garden.
Birds need food and unfrozen water to get through big freezes like this winter.
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Railway walk and meccano bridge
Railway walk seen from the path into the Barley Field, looking towards Meccano bridge.
Meccano bridge seen from the canal towpath.
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Smestow valley kestrel
This kestrel landed on one of the conifers behind Compton lock to use it as a lookout spot just as I was walking past.
Because of the slippery conditions underfoot, I had only brought out a moderate telephoto lens.
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Snowscape – Smestow valley
Railway embankment
These pictures feature the front and rear ends of the same moored narrowboat.
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Rosebay willowherb weighed down by snow
Growing right by the umbellifers pictured on the 14th.
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Snow on ivy berries
During the snowy spell, the ivy berries I saw were either covered only by a small cap of snow, as here, or completely hidden in a blanket of white.
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Compton lock: snowy scene
The lock icing up just before Christmas.
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Snowy crab apples
From the tree by Compton lock.
Fruits on the same tree were pictured sprinkled with frost in an earlier post.