Wolves Wild

The lock icing up just before Christmas.

From the tree by Compton lock.

Fruits on the same tree were pictured sprinkled with frost in an earlier post.

Another episode in what has turned out to be a series recording the changing appearance this year of berries on the sloe bushes between the Railway Walk and Barley Field in the Smestow Valley Nature Conservation area.

These pictures were all taken in the field just behind Compton Lock a couple of days before Christmas.

This mushroom put up its fruiting body during the snowy period before Christmas. By the time I noticed it, a lot of the cap had been eaten, and there was a covering of snow on the remainder.

The stalks of umbellifers like this are now reduced to hollow woody skeletons, but are still capable of supporting such a weight of snow.