David

A warm morning, and the flower bees were all over the flowers.

Oxlips flowering right by the entrance to Coppice Wood. Not convinced it got there without human assistance.

A pair of mallards on the canal at Castlecroft, which chose to start mating just as we we were passing.

Lichens seen on a short stretch of the Smestow Valley Reserve between the Barley Field and Compton Lock.

I’m still on the lookout for any frogspawn this year, so far without success. In the meantime, these, of frogs spawning amid frogspawn, are from 2010. From the lower pond in the garden at Wightwick manor

The future leaves still tightly packed together, buds on one of the Barley Field oaks just before they open.