This pair of Canada geese on Tillington Pool on Doxey Marshes were swimming up and down side by side engaged in an elegant aquatic ballet. Turning their heads to the left or right in sync, or lowering and stretching their necks parallel with the water, again in sync.
Some of the extensive patches of wood anemones in the privately-owned woodland immediately to the west of the Lower Wishing Pool in Baggeridge Country Park, seen from the footpath.
Pair of great crested grebes on Doxey Marsh’s Boundary Flash.
They would swim in parallel, some distance apart, then gradually come closer together. They would now swim in parallel, close together. Sometimes they would put their heads close together. One or other (or both) would dip their heads under the water, though they did not bring up any weed to present to the other bird. After a little while they moved further apart, and began to repeat the cycle.
Skeletons of stalks and seed pods from last year’s southern marsh orchids in Baggeridge Country Park.
Pair of lesser black backed gulls (or just possibly yellow-legged gulls) which engaged in synchronised ritual-seeming activity by the tip of the Bylet at Bridgnorth.
They repeatedly dipped their heads in the river – mostly at the same time, though I only managed to grab pictures when they had switched over to doing it alternately.
Ladybirds which had been using the Bantock Park spurge’s flowers as an overnight refuge.
They were possibly harlequin ladybirds.
