In the spring of 2015 an otter (or even a pair) regularly showed themselves in the Severn at Bridgnorth and nearby in broad daylight.
I only managed to see it once. Some of the pictures I took then were posted at the time (here, here and here). But I fired off a lot of shots in the short time I was watching the otter. So the shots in this set were left out last time.
Fluffy young coot swimming in the Birmingham Canal by Fowlers Park, back in July 2014.
I must have been taking lots of shots of young birds around then, not to have posted these pictures at the time.
One photo shows this chick in the background, and the members of a neighbouring coot family – adults and somewhat more mature chicks – close to the water’s edge.
Clump of aubretia flowering growing on a wall on Castle Walk in Bridgnorth in mid-April, the tiny flowers so numerous and close together it looked like a purple patch from a distance.
Common blue damselflies mating, resting on a leaf, then flying together. This pair were at the new pond in Compton Park last August. Although the pool has only been there a couple of years, it has already attracted several types of damselflies. Common blue damselflies have indeed been the commonest.
I’ve not been out much recently because of health problems. Instead I have been looking back at some of the pictures I never got round to posting at the time they were taken.
Earth stars are a group of fungi which show up in winter, usually peeping through the vegetation under hedgerows.
The flotsam accumulating on the upstream side of Low Town Bridge, Bridgnorth, attracted an widening set of bird species. Here a carrion crow was searching for something to eat. I’m not sure what it found.