David

The West Park Canada goose parents and this year’s goslings. The goslings were now nine or ten days old, growing fast, and busy eating to fuel that growth.

The formal Dutch Garden at the back of Bantock House just has to have tulips in season. Here a sample of the flowers.

A garden pond with frogs. Sometimes they were almost submerged, hidden by pondweed. At other times they had emerged, but were still obscured by the vegetation overhanging the pond.

A fungus (species totally unidentified) growing directly out of a brick wall. It must be getting the nutrients for the energy it needs from the moss which is growing alongside it. In return, it may be helping the moss to extract minerals from the mortar.

Some Canada goose goslings on the West Park lake with the parent birds. The goslings looked very young: perhaps even hatched earlier that morning, and out on the water for the first time.

A sun fly resting on a leaf, sunning itself. Sun flies are species of hoverflies, and are quite common.