David

Spiky thistle growing right at the edge of a canal.

Stitchwort, in flower a month ago as it grew by the canal at Castlecroft.

Canada goose with a pair of goslings, which had probably hatched within the last twenty four hours. When I went along the Birmingham Canal in the middle of last month, there was a stretch between Birmingham and Smethwick with a goose and goslings every couple of hundred yards.

Views down and up the same stretch of the Birmingham Canal when the hawthorns were flowering.

Wolverhampton Racecourse is hidden on the other side of the hedge.

It’s been a good year for ducklings, goslings, and coot and moorhen chicks, so lots more pictures of these young birds to come.

These ducklings, already well grown, were in the canal, almost in the shadow of the Stafford Road railway viaduct.

Red flowers on a horse chestnut tree. Compare the more usual white flowers.