Wolves Wild

Tree houseleek, a garden succulent, in the snowy period over Christmas: probably finding conditions less congenial that it would in the Canaries where the plant originates.

The lawn in front of the Tourist Information Office at Stratford on Avon is the territory of a family of swans which seem to have opted out of the fight for bread on the river, and for a group of carrion crows.

Winter, so the little grebes have returned to the canal. This bird has a preferred fishing patch directly downstream of Compton Lock.

Figs on a tree in the garden of the Shakespeare Birthplace in Stratford on Avon, still filling out in the middle of winter.

Swans in flight, coming in to land, dropping down to treetop height.

Remains from one of last year’s umbellifers growing in Compton Rough, seen on a frosty morning recently.