David

Tortoiseshell butterflies resting on nettle leaves. The insects were only a couple of feet apart. One was resting with its underwings showing. The other had the more brightly coloured upper wings visible, partly directly, partly through bright sunlight shining through the nearer wing.

Swan and its egg-filled nest on a River Sow island in Doxey Marshes. The nest is overlooked by the main footpath / cycle path across the marshes, but safely accessible only by water.

Sandstone cliff formed by a cutting to make a narrow lane descending to the back of the churchyard at Worfield. There must be a small ledge half way up the cliff face, supporting a little soil. Here a single bluebell plant, flowering recently.

Dunnock perched on a high wire at Worfield, poised with its wings raised, just about to take off.

A stroll round the outskirts of Worfield village, with yellow archangel flowers just opening all along the verges and the edges of the woodlands.

Rookery in the small wood by the bus stop at Wyken on the Wolverhampton to Bridgnorth road. It’s often noisy even heard above the din of the passing traffic, but only a few rooks and nests visible. Just after I had taken these pictyres, something spooked they birds, possibly a a passing bird of prey. What seemed like at least a hundred rooks took flight, circling and cawing.