Category: David

Delicate blackthorn flowers growing on the end of a twig encrusted in a curly lichen.

The tree they were on was growing in the small Packhorse Bridge Local Nature Reserve outside Hampton in Arden.

Robin on one of the bushes at the edge of Compton Rough. It kept alternating between preening its right shoulder and singing.

Occasionally it paused to watch its surroundings.

Small insect prospecting one of a group of coltsfoots. The flowerscolour seemed to be echoed where the sun was catching the insect’s carapace.

The flowers of these violets had a distinctly magenta colour.

Growing by the towpath just a couple of hundred yards from the white violets featured the day before yesterday.

Bumble bee needing to carry on beating its wings as it holds on to a pussy willow catkin, gathering pollen.

The mass of delicate-looking flowers which open before the leaves hiding the vicious spikes on blackthorn trees.

These were growing along the line of the Finchfield Brook in Turner’s Field.