Category: David

Another black-headed gull on a vantage point, this time the crossbar of a goalpost.

One of West Park’s growing flock of black-headed gulls, unconcerned at the warning message of the notice it is using as a vantage point.

Clump of mushrooms growing right at the edge of a canal – species not identified.

Taken at the same time as the pictures in the previous two posts, here is the lone heron visible on the island in the other half of the lake, standing in splendid isolation. It was also on the southern shore where it would catch the sun.

Closer views of the three herons featured in the previous post. One was standing as if asleep, but occasionally moving its head as it checked nothing was happening. The one in the middle was preening energetically, and the third was half-hidden in the greenery.

A sunny noon at the end of last month. Three herons on the edge of West Park’s boating lake island, all on the southern shore where they were catching the sun.

Although they were only a few yards from each other, they were all carefully standing so that none of them could see the other two birds.