David

Swallow perching on a telegraph wire during a pause in hunting for insects.

Whitebeam when the flowers were at their peak in the middle of last month.

Swift at the same nest featured in the previous post. It seemed either to be trying to scare away the occupant, or to be trying to get into the nest itself. That would be unlikely: it’s a much bigger bird.

House martin peeping out of its nest yesterday on one of the houses facing the village green at Berkswell (Solihull), and the nest itself with the bird’s head even lower.

The nest was awkward for the bird to get into. It needed two or three tries every time it came back.

Distant view of the Wrekin, seen from a footpath just outside Lower Penn.

Field with buttercups so abundant they seemed to be the crop.