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I’m not fishing

I'm not fishing

Moorhen standing on the protective rail around the West Park boating lake.

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Moss on a parapet

Moss on a parapet

Moss on the parapet of Dunstall Water Bridge, with the water of the canal out of focus in one of the pictures.

Moss on a parapet

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Pigeons pairing on a path

Pigeons pairing on a path

Unlike most birds, pigeon mating isn’t limited to a breeding season. That’s one reason there are so many of them.

This pair had decided that one of the footpaths in West Park was a convenient location.

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Yellow club fungus half-hidden in grass

Yellow club fungus half-hidden in grass

Yellow club – a group of very similar looking species of fungi, which look like clumps of miniature yellow baseball bats. They usually grow, as here, half-hidden in grass.

Yellow club fungus half-hidden in grass

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Mist and smoke: Canal at Newbridge

Mist and smoke: Newbridge

View along the canal at Newbridge, the same misty morning as in the recent bridges pictures post. One of the brightly-coloured boats moored at Newbridge Wharf must have just lit their stove.

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Lesser celandine, flowering in January

Lesser celandine, flowering in January

Another plant flowering as if spring had arrived before the middle of January: some of the lesser celandines by the canal towpath on the slope below Hawthorn Wood.