A couple of the shovellers which overwinter on the lake at West Park. For once they weren’t busily swimming in tight circles, hoovering the surface of the water for food. They were about as near as they ever come to the shore, resting. The female actually asleep.
Some of the yellow crocuses under the trees at Bantock Park, flowering a few days ago
Two of the large flock of Canada geese in West Park. The long wet spell has left lots of deep puddles surrounded by squelchy mud, with the geese in it up to their ankles.
Very definitely a cultivated variety of snowdrops: the flowers seemed to be twice as big as any I ever remember seeing before. Growing in a front garden by the Compton Road.
A clump of crocus with the flower buds just beginning to open: I wasn’t sure whether the flowers would be white or purple.
Wall-rue growing on one of the walls of Compton Park. The original habitat of this plant was growing directly from the rock face of limestone hills. There mortar of the wall must have been alkaline enough to support it.