Author: David

A profusion of white flowers on this double cherry tree overlooking the West Park lake. From a distance, almost too much for my taste.

Three pf the greylag geese on West Park lake having a bit of exercise. They took off from the water, flew round circling the island at treetop height two or three times, then came back down very near the spot they started from.

Flowers on a maple at Perton. In the background, out of focus, the water of the Penk which the tree was overhanging.

I thought the carrion crow was finding insects to eat in the soil, and occasionally going down to the water for a drink.

When I looked closer, I could see that every time it went down to the water it was bringing back a piece of sodden bread. There was a cache floating from when someone had been feeding the ducks, and leaving more than the ducks actually wanted to eat.

As I finished taking these pictures, the crow went back down to the water again. This time it came back with a complete slice of bread, which it look set to demolish as I left.

Dead red nettle which flowers at this time of year isn’t actually a nettle, though it does look a bit like a nettle. It is visibly not dead either; that bit of the name just means it doesn’t sting. It doesn’t sting because it isn’t a nettle.

These plants were growing in various beds in the Castle Grounds Park, Bridgnorth. They were possibly uninvited visitors rather than official plantings, but none the worse for that.

A male blackbird looking round, singing and preening in a lakeside alder tree at Perton. As he moved around, the stiff breeze was catching and lifting his feathers.