Author: David

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.

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.