David

This quietly beautiful woodland flower is yet another sign that spring really is finally coming.

A kestrel perching as it scans a field for prey.

This rusty-coloured lighen was growing on the trunk of an apple tree. The greenish blobs on it are moss.

As the weather warms up, more insects become visible.

Yet another sign of spring at last.

This fungus looks for all the world like a tuft of black hair.

It seems to be a fungus which goes under the the proper name of Phycomyces nitens, and grows on dung.

A starling hanging from a bird feeder, and showing a little of the multi-coloured splendour that the normally black portions of its plumage can take on in the right light.

These house spiders are normally seen in late summer and autumn, when the males go off in search of females, fall into a bath or sink, and are unable to get out unaided.

This one managed to get itself into the same difficulty in March.

This bird was feeding on the ground.

This wood pigeon’s egg had fallen out of a tree, or perhaps it was knocked by whatever ate most of the contents.