Abundant healthy lichen growing on the branch of a tree by the canal towpath near Castlecroft.
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Two moorhens on the canal at Compton. The bird on the left has a beak which hasn’t yet turned red: it’s not yet an adult.
They use the fallen elder branch in the middle of the picture to step between the bank and the water. There is a patch of ear fungus growing on the branch.
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Ripple beds, with frost
The ripple beds of the Wren’s Nest Reserve, Dudley: rock laid down under a shallow sea millions of years ago.
A frosty December morning, with the rime thicker on the crests of the ripples.
The side view of the beds (hill on right of picture) shows many more layers of ripples still waiting to be exposed.
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Earth star by a towpath
Earth star fungus under the hedge by the canal towpath near Castlecroft.
Probably a different species of earth star to the ones pictured in a post last week.
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Kestrel hovering, sequence
The kestrel featured in a recent post started to fly as soon as I had been able to take one photo.
I thought I had disturbed it.
But all it did was fly to the middle of the field, and start to hover.
After a short while, it stooped. It flew off to perch in a more distant tree. As far as I could tell, it had caught something and wanted to eat.
These pictures are in reverse order: the lower on the page, the earlier.
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Frosty ivy leaf
Ivy leaf with frost crystals growing from the rim earlier this morning.