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Stag’s horn (candle snuff) fungus

Stag's horn (candle snuff) fungus

Stag’s horn fungus, also known as candle snuff fungus. Tiny fruiting bodies growing on dead, sometimes underground, wood. They grow all year round, but are much more visible in the autumn and winter when less likely to be hidden by vegetation.

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Ice pellets on a frozen pond

Ice pellets on a frozen pond

Ice pellets were scattered on the ground on the first morning of this month after falling overnight. here some are seen on the ice of the frozen poool in Compton Park, with the burgeoning pondweed below providing a green background.

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Standing on one leg: two herons, West Park

Standing on one leg: heron, West Park

Two herons on West Park’s boating lake island, standing just far enough apart that they could ignore each other’s presence. Both balancing on one leg as they twisted their necks to take care of their feathers.

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Iced: fallen oak leaf

Iced: fallen oak leaf

A fallen oak leaf covered in frost and some of the ice pellets which were thinly scattered on the first morning this month after falling overnight.

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Black-headed gulls in flight, West Park

Black-headed gull in flight, West Park

Flying over the boating lake at West Park, a few of the resident flock of black-headed gulls.

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Gone to seed: sunflower, Castle Grounds, Bridgnorth

Gone to seed: sunflower, Castle Grounds, Bridgnorth

Drooping under the weight of the remaining seeds, a sunflower in the WI garden in Bridgnorth’s Castle Grounds.