Butterbur flowering early. In sheltered spots the flowers start to open before the end of December.
Early breeding plumage on gull
Black headed gull with plumage already taking on the black head of the spring breeding plumage when it was pictured on Christmas Eve.
Just emerging, scarlet elf cups
Scarlet elf cups, a fungus with fruiting bodies which appear in late winter, growing on dead wood. Cup-shaped, and normally over a centimeter high and in diameter. These, by the Railway Walk at Newbridge in a spot where they have growin for several years now, were only a couple of millimeters in size. Just visible because of the bright red colour.
Black swan preening, Bridgnorth
Black swan on the Severn at Bridgnorth, preening. is it the same bird which turned up at Shrewsbury earlier in the winter?
Winter aconite emerging
Winter aconite flowers just emerging in a sheltered corner of Stratford on Avon churchyard over Christmas. Probably now getting nearer to open fully like they were here a couple of years ago.
Both sides of a river
Pied wagtail with a territory on both sides of River Avon at Stratford, seen feeding first by the left bank, then the right bank.