David

Comma resting on the leaf of an ivy which was growing by the side of Dirty Lane, Brewood.

This summer two pairs of the greylag geese on the lake at West Park have been raising goslings.

Today’s posts will feature both broods in pictures which were taken on the same day in June.

Here, for starters, is the older set of chicks on the lake with their parents.

The adult greylags with the younger chicks came across the water only shortly after the pair with the older chicks.

To my surprise, both sets of greylag geese in the posts above led their goslings to a place where there was vegetation growing right at the edge of the lake.

Both sets of chicks scrambled out of the water: the more recently hatched with some difficulty. They all then started to look for something to eat.

It’s been over a month since I took these pictures. All the birds still seem to be thriving.

Barley turning from green to yellow as it heads for being ripe enough to reap.

Whitethroat singing from the tallest twig of a hawthorn bush, telling any rivals to keep well away.