Video of robins, blue tits, long-tailed tits and a great tit, bullfinches and a green finch feeding on a bird table. The squirrel also puts in a flying visit.
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Wenlock Priory ruin
Even if I had been inclined to cough up the £4 entrance fee, Wenlock Priory was closed the day I visited the town. So this view of one section of the ruins is taken from the lane near the car park.
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Fern growing in a Wenlock wall
This tiny fern was growing in the same wall as the plant in the previous post.
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Plant growing in a Wenlock wall
This delicate plant was growing in the side of the wall of the grounds of Wenlock Priory.
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Snowdrops in Berkswell churchyard
Despite the (mainly) warm winter, I haven’t noticed that the snowdrops are flowering at any different time than usual.
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Pine cone on the end of a branch
This was my best attempt at trying to catch the moment when the branch stayed still between the gusts of wind.
There were probably about 100 geese altogether in this flock feeding round an oak tree in a cornfield near Berkswell.
They are part of a flock descended from feral birds which now live a few miles away at the Marsh Lane reserve near Hampton in Arden.
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Frost-covered foxglove leaves
The leaves of a foxglove and other hedgerow plants with a heavy coating of frost in the cold spell earlier this month.
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Garrya and hazel catkins
Male flowers from a Garrya ellpitica bush and a hazel (last picture).
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Chillington Wharf in winter
The disused canal wharf near Horseley Fields looks particularly desolate at this time of year.