Wolves Wild

A little grebe, one of the pair in the previous post, has just submerged in the canal.

A pair of little grebes on the canal near Compton.

Every year the birds overwinter on the canal.

Diving to try to catch a small fish. They seem to spend as much time swimming under the water as on it.

Heading behind some reeds, possibly to hide. They are shy little birds.

A robin high in a hawthorn bush, singing.

It may sound pleasant to us, but a rough translation is “who do you think you are looking at?”

West Park as it looked this lunchtime. I was very surprised how few people were aroumd.

Mushrooms pictured at the start of November on the site of the former Hazeldine and Rastrick Foundry at Bridgnorth.

The site is by the river, reached nowadays along the footpath between Severn Park and the bridge.

Catch-me-who-can, the first locomotive to pull trains carrying paying passengers, was built in the foundry in 18-8

The train ran on a circular track near the site of the present-day Euston station.

The mushrooms seemed to be growing on the mulch of the small garden which is now there to commemorate this piece of engineering history.

Three views of a robin perched on a twig during the snow a little while ago.

It was waiting its turn to eat some of the grain left out in a bird feeder.