Velvet shank fungi are among the few brightly-coloured growing things in the depths of winter.
These were growing from a tree trunk fallen across the platform near the Smestow Valley Ranger Station a month ago. Although they had only freshly grown, something had already begun to nibble at them.
Mahonia early-spring flowers, some still as unopened buds, others already losing a few petals.
Flowers beginning to come out on another of the shrubs in West Park.
Bird footprint left behind in soft mud. I didn’t see the bird which made it, but based on the birds feeding on the ground nearby it may have been a blackbird or a song thrush.
Pink and white hellebores, flowering by a roadside on a sunny morning after rain recently.
View across the canal just outside Castlecroft. Remarkably rural-seeming views can be seen just a few minute’s walk from Wolverhampton’s city limits.