David

This fish was in the larger pool in Wightwick Manor garden.

Carved into the sandstone at the top edge of Kinver, these houses had people living in them as recently as the 1950s.

The complex, on two levels, is now owned by the National Trust.

This common hedgerow plant has leaves which can range in colour from green to red, here seemingly on the same plant.

More pictures from the small bank of violets and celandines by the Staffs and Worcs canal.

By mid-March the celandines had joined the violets fully in bloom.

The new year’s growth on a dock plant. Many dock leaves have the characteristic marking of red-rimmed flecks: another viral infection?

Bright yellow pollen on a pussy willow by the Staffs & Worcs canal and paler on a tree in Compton Park (middle picture below).

Normally towards the top of a tallish tree. To me they look like a heap of twigs.

The white goose is domesticated. The paler of the others, perhaps even both others, a cross.

They seem to have taken up residence where the lawn of a house on Windmill Lane meets the Staffs & Worcs canal – handy for demanding bread from people walking the towpath.

Wild arum leaves are often marked with such black flecks – perhaps a virus.

This reed bed and pool looked very tranquil a couple of weeks ago.