Flowers on two horse chestnuts. One, by the Severn at Bridgnorth, with the standard white candelabrums. The other was by the extensive garden behind the Shakespeare Institute at Stratford on Avon, the variant red-flowered form. The fine mature tree was possibly planted when the house was the home of the once best-selling author and self-publicist Marie Corelli.
A large red damselfly – this one was a male – resting on the vegetation by the river in the Angler’s Walk Local Nature Reserve, Stratford on Avon.
Growing in what was perhaps an especially favoured spot — in the sheltered garden of New Place in Stratford on Avon — this lupin was flowering just before the end of April.
An extensive set of pictures of the mallard ducklings at the Bylet in Bridgnorth. The pictures were taken a few days after we’d first spotted the ducklings. All nine from the first sighting were still present, still as full of energy and as keen to explore.
Probably among the last of the year’s bluebells, growing in a shady spot by the Railway Walk.
The goslings on the Severn at Bridgnorth, still in their cute and fluffy phase. They were resting on the shingle beach opposite the Bylet.