Winter colour: bright red scarlet elf cup fungi growing on a pile of dead wood hwere they have been coming back every year since at least 2010 when I first noticed them.
Some of the tufted ducks on the lake at West Park recently. Numbers have been rising through the winter: there were over fifty the morning these pictures were taken, scattered in different sized groups on different patches of water. I don’t remember anything like so many in previous years.