Category: David

Still tiny towards the end of last month, the buds which later develop into oak leaves.

The young cormorant which has been hanging round West Park in recent months was back again in mid-March.

I always seem to arrive just as it gets back on its favourite perch, at the top of the highest tree on boating lake island, after a fishing expedition.

Here it was taking care of its feathers as they dried in the sun.

Nest, probably goose nest, on the unstable ground formed by deposition in the Severn on the downstream side of one of the piers of Bridgnorth Bridge.

No sign of birds tending the nest while I was there – the nest may have been abandoned.

Record shot of a lesser spotted woodpecker high in a tree Crowther Road wood earlier today.

One of the ring-necked parakeets was on another high branch in the same wood, and at least two voles were not far away. Look out for record shots of both species towards the middle of April – at the moment I have a couple of weeks’ backlog.

Little grebe in summer plumage which spend a few days in the canal below Compton Lock in the middle of the month.

In this series the bird was just gently swimming, not diving repeatedly for fish. When a boat came down through the lock, the bird moved so that it was slightly less visible under the shadow of the far bank and its vegetation.

Return visits starting the day after these pictures were taken have been without any more views of dabchicks.

Pale variety of violets, growing in a patch surrounded by someone’s front lawn.