David

Lords and ladies, otherwise known as wild arum and by a host of other names. A plant which prefers shady places on the woodland floor, and flowers just as the trees are coming into leaf. The flowers are enclosed in leaflike structures (actually a bract) called spathes.

Daisies flowering in such profusion that one of the lawns in West Park looked like a sea of white from a distance. Resting in its midst a pair of Canada geese, one sitting, the other standing on one leg. Occasionally stretching out for a nibble of daisy or grass.

Nearby, a carrion crow, on the lookout for whatever it could get. Further away, a pair of mistle thrushes were also hunting.

A spruce of some kind with cones at the end of its dangling branches. I don’t know whether the pinkish cones are the flowers, or whether they had been fertilised and were just beginning the ripening of the seeds they held.

A tortoiseshell butterfly with its proboscis extended into one of the dandelion flowers it was busy feeding from.

Canada geese flying, circling one of the islands in the lake at West Park for no obvious reason.

The coot chicks were still not venturing out of the nest. But they were now standing up high enough to give a clear view of four of them. Both parents were now off the nest at the same time, being kept extremely busy on a conveyor belt finding food and ferrying it to the chicks.