A change for Christmas. Not real wildlife, but a big collection of doorkockers, where lions are a popular subject.
There’s forty in this batch, so the odd duplicated design might have crept in, but not many. See if you can spot the few taken in Italy, France, Germany or Belgium.
The hydrant and the post are from nearer to home: Bridgnorth and Stafford respectively.
White saddle mushrooms by the footpath round the lake at Perton. The caps are contorted. Sometimes they look a bit like saddles, but these would make very uncomfortable ones.
Buds already developing on a sycamore. Picture taken in early December.
A pied wagtail which has been around West Park recently, perhaps a lone bird. Record shots.
Some of the same wood blewits featured in a post yesterday, seen three days later. The distinctive colour turning to brown, as the mushrooms prove as popular with the local fauna as they are with foodies.
Remains of a hogweed plant, at the lower end of the Barley Field in the Smestow Valley nature Reserve.