A coot sitting on the frozen lake.
Frosty umbellifers
With the last few seeds remaining on the plants.
Strange sheep
This mechanical sculpture by Andy Plant should be a better known sight in Wolverhampton city centre.
Every hour, just after the top of the hour, it performs the routine videoed here on the Art Gallery balcony overlooking Lichfield Street.
Compton lock
The first water to freeze on this stretch of the Staffs and Worcs canal was inside the historic lock at Compton. Minutes after this first picture was taken, a narrowboat came through and the thin ice was broken.
Pictures two and three were taken several days later, after the heavier snow fall. There was no sign then of ice forming over those stretches of the canal I saw.
Rose hips
These hips were still festooning a bush at the edge of the barley field in Smestow Valley Park at the end of November.
Birds on a frozen lake
Another picture from the cold spell.
Frosty razor strop fungus
One of the few fungi to be found when everything is freezing.
Frosted sloe berries
Yet another picture from the series taken during the recent hoar frost. The sloes are from the same bushes which have featured in posts here since the early autumn.
Frosted nettle
Another plant whose appearance is transformed by a frosty coating.
Fly agaric after the snow and ice
This is the same fly agaric fruiting body which was pictured in posts in November. The present picture was taken during the brief thaw in the hard weather earlier this month.
Pigeon
Displaying the gloss on his neck feathers.
Frosty webs
The web above was on one of the lock gates at Wightwick Mill lock on the Staffs and Worcs canal.
The other was by the pavement of a residential street.
