David

Laburnum flowers dangling from a tree on Albert Road. The reddish background colour in two of the pictures is an out of focus copper beech in the next front garden.

Bold robin on a park bench near West Park boating lake. The last image is of a different robin on a wooded fence.

Assortment of spring flowers – pictures I’ve just noticed I didn’t get around posting at the time.

The nearest I saw this year to a carpet of bluebells. Seen from a footpath in Baggeridge Country Park, looking across a fence which carried a notice every few yards that it protected private woodland.

There’s also some snake’s head fritillaries, wood anemones, apple blossom and wild garlic flowers.

Greylag goose on the lake at West Park. Flying as it was honking aggresively, seeing off a rival which had encrouched onto what it considered its own patch of water.

Early morning after a cold May night, a caterpillar unmoving and apparently asleep on a hazel leaf.

Courtship pigeon style, West Park. The male puffs himself up and struts about forcefully, the female walking away. The male continues strutting, still trying to get the female’s attention. This time, a jogger came along the other footpath. The male was distracted briefly, tbe female vamoosed.