Comma butterfly resting on a dry canal towpath, and drinking from a very slightly damper patch of the soil.
The deeply indented trailing edge of the wings is a more distinctive mark of the species than the vaguely comma shaped patch which is confined to the underwing.
Bright yellow broom flowers crowding together on a bush at the edge of Fowler’s Park recently.
Duck and ducklings on a canal bank. The young birds feeding among the grass, the mother unconcerned as I passed by inches away.
Clematis, escaped from cultivation and well-established on a fence on the far side of the Birmingham Canal, half way down the 21 locks. It was in full flower mid-May.
Red flowers on a hawthorn tree, just beginning to go over a couple of weeks ago.
Views of the Smestow, directly downstream from the footbridge of Trescott Ford.
