It’s been a good year for ducklings, goslings, and coot and moorhen chicks, so lots more pictures of these young birds to come.
These ducklings, already well grown, were in the canal, almost in the shadow of the Stafford Road railway viaduct.
Red flowers on a horse chestnut tree. Compare the more usual white flowers.
One of a trio of moorhen chicks which were swimming in the canal very close to the towpath side.
Flowers growing in a clump in a front garden.
Buds of yellow flag iris flowers just before they opened in the middle of last month.
Fly on a bramble leaf, the red of its eyes contrasting with the green of the leaf.