Category: David

All along the twenty one locks section of the Birmingham Canal between the Broad Street Basin and Aldersley Junction there are small patches of cowslips. Perhaps planted, but still very nice.

A cutting for a narrow lane in the soft sandstone near Bridgnorth left a narrow face. A series of circular holes in this rock are excavations made by bees for somewhere to live.

Bumble bee which was systematically working through the catkins on a pussy willow, collecting pollen.

Ramson (wild garlic) flowers. Some just developing as buds, some opening, and one fully open. All were on plants in the same patch, seen at the same time.

The first ducklings I spotted this year: three with their mother swimming on the canal near the Wildside Centre. It looked like they had been hatched for less than a day.

Male pussy willow catkins, covered in yellow pollen.

These were on one of the recent mornings after heavy overnight rain, which had left the catkins looking very bedraggled.