Category: David

Kestrel hovering over Barley Field this morning, seconds before it swooped.

The Smestow Birders have seen a kestrel here quite often recently – hopefully a young bird establishing a territory.

Starling walking through short-cropped grass, testing whether the early bird does really get the worm.

Delicate toadflax flowers on top of the plant’s long stem, growing on the edge of Fowler’s Park last month.

Pair of beeches growing close together half way up Tettenhall ridge, from a high point on the opposite side of the Smestow valley.

Bumblebee systematically gathering from the remaining flowers of a honeysuckle, which elsewhere had berries which were already ripening.

Unripe (green) and riper (black) elderberries. The main picture shows bunches of the berries at the end of two twigs on the same bush. One must get less sun than the other.