David

Heron hunting, mid-February, standing on a footpath leading past a small pond near the Handsworth Wood end of Sandwell Valley.

The breeding season was fast approaching. The bird didn’t have the long feathers down its front and the behind its head, so it may have been a juvenile.

Black-headed gulls standing on successive posts of a fence in the flooded area of a field bordering the Pool Hall fishing lake.

Badger paw print made in soft earth at the entrance to its sett, with deep indentations from the claw-tipped toes.

Male and female tufted ducks on a small pool in Sandwell Valley, the opposite side of the River Tame to the RSPB Reserve.

Teazles growing on the slope leading down to Forge Mill Pool in the Sandwell Valley.

Splashes of colour from the planting around the bandstand in the Bridgnorth Castle Gardens from ornamental plants. A delicately purple-tinted cabbage towering over the red and yellow flowers of some sort of daisy.