Category: David

It’s the time of year for duck and duckling pictures again. This mallard had seven ducklings, only a couple of days old, on the Shropshire Union Canal between Wheaton Aston and Brewood.

Some of the wallflowers growing from the ruined walls of Bridgnorth Castle, now in full flower.

One of the plants was pictured here a few weeks earlier, before the flowers started to develop.

Some of the rooks in the rookery by the bus stop at Wyken, loudly standing guard, each by their nest.

Many of the flowers at this time of year are blue. Here’s a selection.

The bluebells and the grape hyacinths are from Key Hill Cemetery – a small burial ground in a former quarry on the edge of the Jewellery Quarter, the final resting place of many of the well-off of Victorian Birmingham, now a shady spot visible from the tram line.

Evergreen alkanets are common in the hedgerows by local canals.

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Red dead nettle growing by the wall in front of Lavington’s Hole, the most impressive cave in the base of the sandstone cliff at Low Town.

Two of the carrion crows on patrol by one of the footpaths in West Park, when one of the birds noticed it had a feather hanging loose. A brief pause was all that was needed to deal with it.