City centre sparrows, Christmas morning

City centre sparrows, Christmas morning

To celebrate a tier 4 Christmas Day, strolled to the city centre to try to get some pictures of the resident starlings. But they weren’t cooperating. They were around, but only visible as occasional glimpses in the distance.

Someone had left grain for birds on a footpath near the market. No sign of starlings though that is one of their regular haunts. But a flock of house sparrows were there, eating and socialising in nearby bushes, unworried by human presence.

West Park erratic, snowy morning

West Park erratic, snowy morning

The largest and most impressive of the erratics in West Park when there was a light covering of snow on the morning of New Year’s Day.

Snowy waxcaps, Chestnut Tree

Snowy waxcaps, Chestnut Tree

Snowy waxcaps. small, pure-white mushrooms. These were growing onn the lawn in front of the Chestnut tree pub in Finchfield, shortly before Christmas.