Category: David

Parent bird and fast-growing family of cygnets on the lake at West Park. When these pictures were taken, about fopur weeks ago, the chicks were still just about at the cute and fluffy stage.

Lone duckling swimming on the Severn by the bylet at Bridgnorth, and (with the parent birds) on dry land.

Growing in a patch of wildflowers which most likely came out of a seed packet, an orange flower close to the ground on a California poppy.

Cormorants preening on a pole crossing Forge Mill Pool, seen from the Sandwell Valley RSPB hide.

Immature grey wagtail by the Water Bridge carrying the Smestow over the canal earlier today.

Shades of green in this farmland scene interrupted by two splashes of red, from a pair of poppies flowering in a field of ripening oilseed rape.