Category: David

The greylag geese from the last post: they had been heading for one of the pools left by the persistent heavy rains. As far as I could see, they were drinking the water.

Lead greylag goose and (below) the rest of the group determinedly heading across one of the lawns in West Park.

For their destination, see the next post.

Wetland Lake looking towards the stand of alders which hide the Wolves training ground, with frost on the vegetation.

The bullrush of the previous post can be seen in the centre foreground.

One of the bullrushes at the margin of Wetland Lake, the frost only holding on on its shady side, even though the sun had not been on it for long that morning.

The land around the river Blythe on the Packhorse Bridge Nature Reserve (Hampton in Arden) is normally marshy. After the recent rains, it has become a series of giant puddles connecting ponds and pools.

I thought I had been walking really quietly. Perhaps I was the first person who had been along the path for some time, because a heron took flight when I was still a long way from it.

Some kind of umbellifer which was flowering at the start of this month.

It was growing on a grassy verge just outside the village of Berkswell. The flowers are elaborate for an umbellifer, so it may have been a cultivated species, an escapee from one of the nearby gardens.