David

Small insect prospecting one of a group of coltsfoots. The flowerscolour seemed to be echoed where the sun was catching the insect’s carapace.

The flowers of these violets had a distinctly magenta colour.

Growing by the towpath just a couple of hundred yards from the white violets featured the day before yesterday.

Bumble bee needing to carry on beating its wings as it holds on to a pussy willow catkin, gathering pollen.

The mass of delicate-looking flowers which open before the leaves hiding the vicious spikes on blackthorn trees.

These were growing along the line of the Finchfield Brook in Turner’s Field.

Catkin on a female pussy willow tree.

The catkins look clearly different to those on male trees.

White violet growing by the towpath opposite the Wildside Activity Centre.