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Crows on birch lookout

Crow on birch lookout

Small group of Sedgely Beacon carrion crows which landed, one to a tree, on the slender tree tops of a small birch plantation.

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Icy margin, i54

Icy margin, i54

Icy margin of one of the pools formed by a widening of the brook through the nature reserve by the i54 industrial estate.

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Magpie in guttering

Magpie in guttering

Magpie in some guttering at the edge of a roof, poised ready for take-off.

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Winter flowers: snowdrops

Winter flowers: snowdrops

Winter flowers opening in January – clumps of snowdrops from Bantock Park, and one clump from a small island in the Wom Brook at Wombourne.

Winter flowers: snowdrops

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Muscovy ducks, Mary Stevens Park

Muscovy duck, Mary Stevens Park

Muscovy ducks at Mary Stevens Park, Stourbridge. I counted seventeen birds, moving round and spread out, so I might not have included the complete set.

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Winter flowers: purple crocus, Wombourne

Winter flowers: purple crocus

Winter flowers beginning to open in late January. These purple crocus were in the Wob Brook Nature Reserve, Wombourne.