Honey fungus on the remaining stump of a tree. Infestation by the fungus was probably the reason the tree needed to be felled.
Bird feeder user, Bridgnorth Castle Garden
Another Castle Grounds bird getting the benefits of the seeds and nuts put out in the feeders. Robins are attracted not so much to the feeders themselves as to the ground below, to gather what has fallen and scattered from above.
Tracks in the ice, West Park lake
West Park lake lightly frozen (and half of the surface still open water). On the ice, a cereies of furrows where the ice has been parted then refrozen. Some of these furrows were straight, others meandered slightly.
The straight furrows where birds had landed, possibly not even realising the very thin film of ice was there. Meandering lines where one had swum, ploughing through the icy film.
Bonnets on a fallen bough, Newbridge
Bonnet mushrooms (Mycena species) growing directly from the rotting wood of a short section of fallen bough near the Railway Walk at Newbridge.
Bird feeder users, Bridgnorth Castle Gardens
More of the birds attracted to the bird feeders in the Castle Grounds at Bridgnorth. Titmice were by far the most active.
Nuthatch, Bridgnorth Castle Gardens
Bird feeders have been put up at the Castle Grounds public park in Bridgnorth, and were proving popular the day I visited. This nuthatch paid several visits to the peanuts, even trying to get in through the not quite closed lid. For a change, it also sampled the mixed seeds.