Category: David

Blackthorn bushes, with their long a vicious spines, flower early in spring before their leaves are out. The bushes at the back of Barley Field were covered in buds a couple of weeks ago.

Unidentified fungus growing on a fallen tree trunk in the woods at Northycote Farm. To me the fungus looks like a solidified foam.

Several different lichen types growing on the twigs of a small oak tree in the Packhorse Bridge LNR, Hampton in Arden.

Coot and gull standing on the same fallen bough as they kept watch on the River Avon at Stratford.

Mosses on the top of a wall, getting ready to release their spores.

Gull which has got a black head, because it is a black headed gull, now with the breeding plumage which has the dark brown (black-seeming) feathers on the head.