Category: David

Small cluster of the daisy-like flowers of a feverfew. The plant was, and still is, used as a herbal remedy for migraine.

One of this year’s West Park cygnets, imitating a common habit of adult swans and keeping one of its legs bent so that the foot is well out of the water as it gently drifts across the water. Occasionally it used its foot to scratch at its remaining downy baby feathers.

The dried and probably now empty seed cases of a poppy seen in a front garden.

Very young moorhen chick struggling to keep its balance and walk across a network of narrow stems. An adult bird (probably the mother) was meanwhile swimming towards me on the opposite bank, perhaps in the hope of being given some bread.

Bindweed flower looking most untypical, its petals folded together, half open.

Dredging of the canal at Wightwick had brought up the rusty frame of a bike someone had dumped in the water. Several freshwater mussels had anchored themselves to the tubes.