Category: David

Buttercups have been growing in huge brightly coloured clumps this year in the wetland area next to the Barley Field.

The double lock at Botterham, on the canal between Wombourne and Swindon, seen earlier in the spring before most of the trees had their foliage.

Cow really stretching its neck backwards. Was it trying to chase its own tail?

Moss growing through lichen, giving a lo vegetative layer in varying shades of green.

A pair of mallards at the new pool in Compton Park had nine ducklings at the end of last month. When the chicks were on the water they were hyperactive, darting rapidly, trying to catch flies. These were the best pictures I managed of them.

Geoff from the Smestow Valley Birders saw a heron hunting the ducklings featured in the post above, though it didn’t catch any.

But the mother seems to have decided that a retreat was in order. The next day she was with all nine, hyperactive as ever. Now they were lunging after flies as they swam in the canal. The chicks were still to have flown. Perhaps they made a subterranean escape through the Graiseley Brook culvert.