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.
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.
Black-headed gulls in flight, West Park
Flying over the boating lake at West Park, a few of the resident flock of black-headed gulls.
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.
Magpie drinking from puddle, West Park
One of the bold magpies in West Park taking a drink, and prowling through the next puddle to the one being patronised by a group of Canada geese.
Up through tarmac: glistening inkcaps
Mushrooms look soft, but are sometimes able to exert surprising force. A new tarmac surface was laid on this pavement in 2010. Just a few weeks later, a clump of small glistening inkcaps forced their way to the surface, pushing a patch of the tarmac aside.
Since then, there has been a fresh patch of these mushrooms every year at about the same time. As they emerge, the hole in the tarmac is being enlarged bit by bit.