This dashing diving duck is a winter visitor to the UK's seas, coastal lakes and occasionally inland water bodies.

The European larch was introduced into the UK from Central Europe in the 17th century. Unusually for a conifer, it is deciduous and displays small, greeny-red cones on brittle twigs.

This elegant wading bird is a rare visitor to the UK, though occasionally one or two of pairs will nest here.

A member of the buttercup family, Common water-crowfoot displays white, buttercup-like flowers with yellow centres. It can form mats in ponds, ditches and streams during spring and summer.

Eyebright has small, white flowers with purple veins and yellow centres. It likes short grasslands, from clifftops to heaths, and is one of a number of species and hybrids that are hard to tell…

This streaky brown bird is a winter visitor, occasionally found walking around the muddy margins of marshes.