Category: David

Flowers on a roadside apple tree when they were just on the point of opening (late April). Although the tree was growing well away from any orchards or gardens, it looked like a cultivated variety.

Heron standing on a pipe carrying some of the discharge for Barnhurst Farm across the canal. By May the birds have dispersed from their gatherings in the heronries for the breeding season.

Unidentified convoluted fungus, possibly one of the cup fungus (Peziza) species. Spotted growing in a front garden.

Gorse flowers and developing seeds from different branches of the same bush, one of many growing in the heathy areas of Sutton Park.

Tree stump at Pendeford Mill, carved to remember a face. Later growths of bracket fungi decorating the eyes, nose and mouth. The fungus may have caused the original weakness which led to the tree being felled.

May (hawthorn) buds which probably were subjected to the rough winds referred to in Shakespeare’s sonnet before they opened. I actually saw these just before the end of last month.