Wolves Wild

Blackened witch’s butter fungus – a jelly fungus which starts out as a yellowish colour. This was growing on a tree at Beaudesert, Henley on Arden.

Prospecting the soil under short grass for small creatures to eat, a dunnock in West Park recently.

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.

One of the West Park moorhens burying its head in its food, eating some chapati flower which had been left near the lake.

Lesser celandines flowering at the start of this month by the footpath round the lake at Perton.

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.