Category: David

Flowers on two of West Park’s rhododendron bushes, right next to each other, blooming in contrasting colours recently.

West Park swan pair and their four young cygnets. These pictures were taken early on the morning after those in yesterday’s post; the young birds had now hatched about twenty-four hours previously.

When I arrived, the swan family were on the water close to boating lake island. After a couple of minutes they began to head out into the open water in a long, gentle paddle which ended near the shore by where I was standing.

One of the West Park nesting herons at the edge of an island. It caught and ate something, probably a series of small fish. Then it flew off to join its mate on the nest.

Close-ups of red flowers on the same horse chestnut tree as in the previous post.

Red horse chestnut flowers almost seemed to glow in the bright sunlight of a spring morning.

Cute and fluffy as ever, four cygnets on West Park lake with the pen close by (the cob was on watch a little further away).

The chicks were still very young – eightteen hours earlier, one of the parents was still brooding the eggs on the rudimentary nest on the island.