Waxwing, one of a party of a dozen in the Dell Field of the Smestow Valley Nature Reserve, by the canal,
last week.
They were resting in the tops of the taller trees by the canal, then making forays to eat rosehips and haws from nearby bushes.
Small stagshorn fungus are perhaps a centimetre long, but made more noticable by their yellow colour when fresh.
They are common growing on dead wood, like this felled trunk in EastPark.
Velvet shanks are fungi which are one of the few things growing even in the depths of winter. They can survive being frozen solid, thawing, and continuing to grow.
These were on a stump in the grounds of the Chestnut Tree pub in Finchfield.
The leaning remains of Bridgnorth castle, with the church tower behind, as seen on one of the frosty days last month.
The impressive structures growing from this patch of moss are its fruiting bodies, which hold the spores.
The remains of an umbellifer growing by the Birmingham Canal near Aldersley, encrusted in frost during last month’s cold spell.