Male goldfinches coming to a garden feeder with niger seed. One of the birds spent a long time eating seed after seed – I cut more footage than I left in.
Mistle thrush pair, West Park
Pair of mistle thrushes with a territory between the bandstand and the boating lake in West Park. Here they were searching one of the lawns for worms to eat. They were less prone than usual to take flight when people passed, perhaps being in greater need of eating at the end of a spell of hard weather.
Mistle thrush eating worms
Just a few seconds of video, but it’s enough for this mistle thrush in Wolverhampton’s West Park to capture and eat two worms. I had lots of tries at showing this in a still photo, but always managed to take the picture just too soon or too late.
Pollen-tipped catkins
Pollen-tipped catkins on a pussy willow, another sign of the approaching spring to look out for from late February.
Black Swan, River Exe
It’s winter. The weather hasn’t been of the best. Even when I’ve been out, I’ve been leaving the camera at home. So, from my stock of old but unpublished pictures, something exotic.
Black swans are native to Australia. There is a small population of them based in Dawlish. Sometimes they range rather more widely around the south Devon coast. This one had come up to the tidal limit of the River Exe at Topsham on the outskirts of Exeter.
Berry brook, Northycote Farm
Berry brook on the northern edge of Northycote Farm. The boundary between Wolverhampton city and Staffordshire follows the line of the brook, which has marked boundaries for all of recorded history.