One of the clumps of snowdrops in Banotck Park, with Bantock House in the background. The sun was just rising over the roofline of Bradmore Road, lighting the area.
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Kingsmead Marsh, Stafford
Kingsmead Marsh is one of two nature reserves lying directly outside Stafford’s ring road (the other one is Doxey Marshes).
Pearl Brook forms one edge of Kingsmead Marsh, which is much more densely vegetated than Doxey.
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Magpie delving, West Park
One of the West Park magpies, systematically delving away at a small patch of exposed earth in West Park a few days ago, probably in search of something to vary its diet.
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First crocusses, Bantock Park, 2018
The first clump of crocusses to come into flower under the trees in Bantock Park this year, in the last week of January.
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Heron gathering twigs, West Park
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.
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Air bubble, frozen puddle
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.