David

Red dead nettle growing in a patch by one of the footpaths across the Doxey Marshes Nature Reserve. Apart from the flowers it looks similar to nettle, but isn’t. The “dead” just means it doesn’t sting.

High wire at Worfield, with a goldfinch perching where it can see and be seen.

Field near Worfield with ewes and their young lambs relaxing in warm midday sun. A high proportion of the ewes seemed to have had twim lambs.

One of the lambs had chosen what looked like a comfortable spot to sunbathe – resting on its mother’s back, leaving no room for its sibling to join it.

Rookery at the top of the hill on the outskirts of Worfield. One of a pair of rooks which were flying in and out of a nest high in a tree, and the nest itself.

Comma butterfly speading its wings on ground in Compton Rough, warming itself in the spring sunshine.

Great white egret on the far shore of Tillington Pool in the Doxey Marshes Nature Reserve, Stafford. Then something disturbed it, so it took off, heading for a quiter spot.