David

Each seed of these teazles sprouts a long stalk with a vicious hook, for getting caught in fur or feathers to disperse the seeds.

The stems are also covered in vicious spikes. These are to discourage creatures from landing on them.

Tuftie drake over by the island on the upper pool at Perton was behaving rather oddly. I think it was preening, but hard to be sure from a distance.

A repeat showing for some videos showing some of the users of garden bird feeders

These are all pre-pandemic, dating back to 2017 and 2019

Most herons are now congregating at one or other of the local heronries. Not this bird, which was by the island on the upper pool at Perton recently. Probably it’s not yet mature.

Rosebay willowherb seeds normally float through the summer air on their feathery seeds, sometimes called sugar stealers. These plants held on to just a few of theirs from last year.

For St Valentine’s Day, a short video of a pair of swans engaging in the coordinated aquatic dance which is their courtship ritual It’s possible the dance ended with the pair mating, though I didn’t wait around to see.

The swans were on the Avon at Stratford back in spring 2019, and were filmed on a mobile.