Wolves Wild

Huge seeds from an ornamental plant in the car park of the Oddfellows at Compton, in silhouette against one of the rare blue skies earlier this month.

The resident muscovy drake on the upper pool at Perton, on the shingle area where birds come to be fed. As so often, preening while he waits for bread.

A touch of January colour in a front garden: the flower of some kind of fleabane or horseweed.

Folklore claims that birds pair up on St Valentine’s Day. For some species, the process actually starts before the end of the old year. This pair of coots were building a nest on the lower pool at Perton, at the end of January 2019

From early January 2021, chubby squirrels in West Park. Some were probably pregnant, but others had been overfed with peanuts by visitors to the park, and were expectant that I was about to give them some as well.

From early January last year, when some of the West Park wagtails were showing themselves while out searching for things to eat.