A Wintry Walk around Granta Park

A few photos from Andy M's wintry walks around Granta Park this week.  The frosty nights were certainly bringing the leaves down, and in the quiet stillness of the early morning, you could hear the leaves gently falling!

 Frosty thistles by the river

 Frost on Cow Parsley seedheads

Autumnal Oak leaf colours

 A carpet of red, orange and yellow sycamore leaves

 Leaf rafts covering the slow moving river

Mallard on the lake

 Barnacle Goose 'lawnmowers' in the early morning

 A Grey Heron, hunched up against the cold

 Fabulous patterns in dead bark made by the Bark Beetle

Toadstools

 'Wood Ear' or 'Jelly Ear' fungus (Auricularia auricula-judae)

 Pink-orange bracket fungus on a dead oak (species unknown)

A watchful Owl carved in situ from a standing tree-stump