Still going round in circles, some of the shovellers which have moved onto the West Park lake for the winter.
Stay indoors on a cold morning
Stay indoors on a cold morning, a Gloucester old spot pig (probably the boar) at Northycote Farm earlier this month.
Preparing to pounce, wood pigeons
Two wodd pigeons on observation posts overlooking the bird feeding area at Northycote Farm, preparing to pounce when there is an opening for them to vacuum up the seed spilled on the ground.
Tassles starting to develop
Silk tassel plant, more formally Garrya elliptica, with the catkins starting to develop. By late winter, when they are ready to release their pollen, they will have grown longer. The leaves they are resting on are from a camellia.
Winter little grebe return
Winter, when little grebes return to the Wolverhampton stretch of the Staffs and Worcs Canal for their hard-weather quarters – usually. Last year I didn’t spot a single one. By the start of the month there was one on the stretch of water between Compton and Wightwick.
When I was taking the photos, I thought it was swallowing a fish. When I got home and looked at the pictures, what’s hanging from its beak is a piece of vegetation.
Hairy curtain crust fungus high on tree
Hairy curtain crust, a common bracket fungus often seen in late autumn, high on the trunk of a tree shorn of all its branches in West Park.