Category: David

Swan, probably the pen, with young cygnets on the large pool at Perton. The other parent had just chased away two Canada geese, which must have got too close to the chicks.

Like most other plants, the bad weather has delayed hawthorn flowering this year. Now spring has finally arrived, everything is out in a rush.

This oak apple, on a tree on the edge of Barley Field, can only have started developing very shortly before the picture was taken. Perhaps it is this colouring which gives these galls the “apple” tag.

Female orange tip butterfly resting on a nettle leaf.

Only the males have the distinctive orange tip on their wings.

Tip of a young fern, its leaves beginning to spread. Threads of spider silk were catching the sunlight.

Buzzard rising on a thermal on its first flight of the day at Pendeford Mill.