Category: David

Southern marsh orchids growing in Baggeridge Country Park earlier this month.

The area where they were growing had seemed to be dry last year, but the ground was indeed soggy this time around.

Sequence of a family of coots on a stretch of the 21 locks.

A coot chick a few days old swimming on the water demands food, and is given a little bread by a parent bird, which holds on to most of the bread and swims towards the nest.

The nest is in a bed of reeds. There is another adult there, perhaps brooding unhatched eggs.

When the swimming adult reaches the reeds, more chicks appear, and are given a share of the bread.

Bumble bee gripping onto one of the multi-coloured flowers of a cultivated variety of broom growing in West Park.

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Barley (with “beards”) and wheat, still green and unripe.

Ducklings, not long hatched, and their mother, swimming on the 21 locks stretch of the Birmingham Canal.

Section of the River Penk at Penk Rise, near its source at Tettenhall Wood, which until recently ran through a culvert. The 100-yard culvert has recently been opened up by the Environment Agency, and vegetation is just beginning to colonise the new banks of the stream.