Wolves Wild

Buddleia leaves covered in ice crystals on a frosty morning during the recent cold spell.

Turkey tail fungus, growing on a tree stump. Furry because it has another fungus or a mould growing on it.

More advanced than the crocus (yesterday’s post) these snowdrops growing a few steps away in Bantock Park were pictured at the same time.

Yellow crocus in Bantock Park, the flower buds on the point of opening in the last week of January.

Bluetit clambering on a garden fatball feeder, chosen only when the stocks of seeds and peanuts in the other feeders were getting low and hard to reach.

Bluetit on the twigs of a buddleia (butterfly bush) as it decides which garden feeder it wants to visit this time.

Unidentified species of mushrooms growing on the rotting wood of an old plank.

Witch’s butter (aka golden jelly fungus) growing on a twig by the path across Compton Rough, here on a cold morning with a decoration of frost.

Looking down from the top of Stoneway Steps, Bridgnorth. One of the many sets of steps, impassable to any vehicles, which gave most of the routes between Bridgnorth’s Low Town and High Town in the days when the place was an important inland port.

View through the gate of an interesting looking alley leading off from the town’s High Street (High Town of course).

Small stagshorn fungus (yellow-orange fingers sticking up) and turkeytail fungus (zoned, semi-circular) growing on a lying tree trunk by the path at Northycote Farm.

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View along the canal at Compton, with a covering of frost on the grass and hedge by the lock on a sunny morning.

The weather at the moment isn’t encouraging lots of walks and bike rides in the fresh air. So here is another set of pictures that I didn’t get round to posting when they were taken.

This blue-bodied darter dragonfly set up a territory at the edge of the water of the Compton Park pool in June 2014.