Little Owl in an Oak Tree

On the first day of Christmas, no partridge or pear tree but this little owl, confident of its camouflage among the twisted limbs of an old oak

Pond birds

Ducks and drakes and gulls at the local pond. I like how the gulls look like a motion study.

Catching the light

Fungus on an old stump

Cornflower after the frost

Strangulation