Author: David

This bee was busy collecting nectar from the gorse flowers. The gorse bloom is now well advanced.

These toads were already locked in a nuptial embrace as they crawled across the main path through Baggeridge Park on the way to find a pool to lay their spawn.

The male is noticeably smaller than the female, who is swollen with the eggs.

The warmer weather of the middle of April has brought the flowers on a great deal. It has also prompted the emergence of insects such as butterflies and bees which rely on flowers for food.

A large bank of wood anemones were growing in a wood by the bank of the River Severn, near to the Highley station of the Severn Valley Railway.

Scarlet is not really an accurate description of the shade of red of this woodland fungus. But the colour is so vivid that I thought it was a discarded chocolate bar wrapper until I looked at it more carefully.

Commonly known as the cuckoo pint, Lords and Ladies, and several other names, the wild arum will later produce what is arguably our weirdest looking native flower.