Moss growing in St Leonard’s churchyard, Bilston, some encrusted with frost which had formed overnight.
Don’t get cold feet (lesser black-backed gull, West Park)
Earlier this month, most of the surface of the West Park boating lake frozen over. Almost all the birds were swimming around on the remaining patch of open water. Just this lone lesser black backed gull standing on the ice.
Purple heather, flowering February
February flowering from purple heather – this from right at the edge of the cliff at Bridgnorth, by the upper station of the Cliff Railway.
Heron standing, Canada goose swimming by
Heron standing still, as they so often do, on one leg as it kept the same pose for as long as I watched. At one point a Canada goose swam by.
Mezereum flowering, West Park
Mezeereum shrub in flower, West Park. A photo can’t convey the fragrance of the flowers.
Magpie in an oak tree
Magpie almost directly above me in an oak tree, aware I was there and unworried.