Young heron on the shore of boating lake island, West Park, gathering twigs on a cold January morning. If it was gathering material for building a nest, it was doing so when no other herons were visible in the area.
A couple of years ago a pair of young but mature herons did have a nest on the opposite side of the same island, where they raised a chick.
Puddle frozen after a cold night. The paler area running across the middle is where a large bubble of air has been trapped under the ice.
Artist’s palette fungus low down on a tree trunk. Its surface was glsitening, covered with water from the overnight frost which had recenly melted in the morning sun.
Thistle on a cold morning, covered in heavy frost which the sun had not yet melted.
Visitors to a garden birdfeeder. one or more greenfinches, several goldfinches and a bluetit.
One of the small mushrooms growing on wood chip mulch, featured in yesterday’s post, as it appeared three weeks later.