Author: David

A small pool in the Conservatory at West Park, with a few goldfish. It isn’t a wishing well, or a fountain to throw three coins in, but some people seem to have done that anyway.

Partially-opened oak leaves – these on a tree next to the West Park Conservatory.

The conjunction of the various stages of a dandelion flower caught my eye.

The twigs of the two trees were so close together in a hedge.

The weather we have had this year has produced unusually good crops of the St George’s mushroom.

These were growing in rings: something I have never noticed before for this species.

There are three different rings, of varying degrees of completeness, represented here.

All three rings were within a few yards of each other: so close that the fruiting bodies may have been growing from the same underground structure perhaps?

This bluebell hadn’t opened yet, but something still seemed to have had a go at biting off some of the ends of its flower.

Whenever the rain pauses for a while, there seem to have been a lot of ladybirds about this year.

A more favoured spot on the same bush as yesterday’s buds – these flowers were pictured at the same time.

Just starting to open, towards the end of April.

Growing in the undergrowth near the Ranger Station on the Smestow Valley LNR Railway Walk.

This pair of ladybirds seemed to have arranged themselves not quite symmetrically on the new growth at the top of a nettle

This thriving moss was growing on a horizontal bough, conveniently at eye level.