Category: David

Goosander drake, resting on the gravel beach at the tip of the Bylet by Low Town bridge at Bridgnorth. A lone bird, which was quite likely having a short rest on its spring migration.

Pasqueflowers beginning to show the signs of age. The flowers on the same plant a couple of weeks earlier can be seen here.

Tree growing right at the edge of a small former sandstone quarry in woodland near Quatford.

Female mallard swimming upsteam on the Smestow Brook as the stream crosses the Tunstall Water Bridge with the canal below.

Lichen growing on a rock by a small pond between Wolverhampton Science Park and the canal. In my imagination forming a forest of towers, a fraction of an inch high and broadening at the top like the bell of a trumpet.

Male blackbird, possibly the same individual as in yesterday’s post, on the lookout for food – this time on a sunnier day. The plumage looks glossier in the contrasty light.