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.
Moorhen eating chapati flower, West Park
One of the West Park moorhens burying its head in its food, eating some chapati flower which had been left near the lake.
Early lesser celandines. Perton
Lesser celandines flowering at the start of this month by the footpath round the lake at Perton.
Tufties gathering, West Park
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.
Snowdrops, Holy Trinity Church, Coventry
A pleasing mass of snowdrops in a pleasing location below the west end of Holy Trinity Church in Coventry city centre.
Robin under seed feeders, Northycote Farm
I’d been watching the bird feeding station at Northycote Farm for a good quarter hour on a freezing morning. The only birds coming had been the titmice featured in recent posts. Then, for no reason perceptible to me, all the bird disappeared. Just as I had packed away my long lens, this robing materialised on the ground under the feeders.