Category: David

the bird reappeared, striding purposefully across an open space … (continued below)

it stopped below a weeping willow, and began watching the water for prey.

Little egret on a stretch of dry land in the middle of the big lake at Doxey Marshes, some distance from the hide as it took care of its feathers.

Large quantities of frogspawn in the small pond towards the Penn end of Penn Common. The black blobs in the middle of the eggs had already began elongating as they developed into tadpoles in the first week of April.

One of a pair of ring-necked parakeets nesting in Crowther Road wood, seen earlier today drinking at the bird bath in the boatyard opposite.

More pictures of the birds to come some time in the next couple of weeks.

The yellow on these pussy willow catkins in pollen, an indication that they are male flowers.