Author: David

I haven’t managed to identify which species yet.

Last weekend the bluebells finally came out in a carpet of flowers.

The view below is of a small wood just outside Rindleford, near Bridgnorth.

And here a view of a smaller patch of the same slope.

Finally from a little wood just a few hundred yards from Boscobel House. Although this picture was taken a couple of days after the others, the flowers are not quite so far out.

The swallows have now arrived from Africa. This pair were resting on the telegraph wires crossing over Badger pool.

One of them is also pictured below showing the brown “throat”. The wing feathers are ruffled in the breeze.

A wasp gathering pollen from a forget-me-not growing in the woods which fringe Highgate Common.

The picture below is of a plant in the same clump, showing the flowers more clearly.

Honesty flowers. The plant perhaps takes its name from the seed cases, which are semi-transparent and show the seed within.

The false oxlip is a cross between a cowslip and a primrose, which were blooming in abundance near to where this picture was taken.

To untrained eyes like mine, the plant looks like an oxlip. But that is much rarer, and in Britain it grows wild only in small areas of East Anglia.