David

Spring is coming soon. The catkins on hazels have been developing all winter, and now the buds of the new year’s leaves are beginning to show.

Pollarded tree next to the dovecote on the Dovecotes housing estate, a perch for some of the local jackdaws and starlings.

Large, octagonal seventeenth century dovecote, now at the centre of the Dovecotes housing estate. There’s a small erratic in the foreground of the picture above.

A collared dove, a regular visitor to the ground under garden bird feeders, after the grain which had fallen uneaten.

Coppice Wood recently, with most of the ground converted into a lake which came almost up to the path around the edges of the wood.

West Park pied wagtail, searching the ground near one of the benches for insects as it tried to dodge the many joggers and walkers. Directly I’d got these pictures, someone came by with a dog. The bird flew off to cover.