Author: David

This distinctive spring mushroom is uncommon.

The one pictured here was growing in a municipal flowerbed by the Severn – hence the gravel cover.

This bunch of mistletoe, growing on a mountain ash by the river Severn below Bridgnorth, was in flower recently.

This ramson or wild garlic was almost beginning to flower. Once the flowers do come out, the smell is an indication of the relationship to the cultivated culinary plant.

Goslings by the Severn at Bridgnorth. The goose-stepping mother leads a chick.

The goslings swim in a shallow side stream.

Watching over the feeding goslings.

The mother needs to eat too.

Flowers on a sloe bush a few days ago.

On the next bush the buds had not yet opened.

Early ducklings on the upper pool at Badger.

The grouping below is one section of a flotilla which included two broods which were being herded by both sets of parents.

Here is another of them.