Like many native mammals, its easier to spot traces left where otters have been than to see the animals themselves – specifically, the spraint left in the area they use as a toilet.
This was from an otter on the Pendeford Mill Nature Reserve, by the river Penk.
The warmer weather has finally brought on some flowers, providing welcome daffodil pollen for insects like this fly.
Bracket fungi, whimsically seating for tree nymphs.
Growing on two of the trees on the bank of the Smestow not far from the Nature Reserve Ranger Station.
CORRECTION: identified by Lukas Large as possibly blushing brackets
More of the impressive livestock at Pendeford Mill Nature Reserve. These birds are hens, not, as I thought, cocks.
This peahen is part of the stock at Pendeford Mill Nature Reserve. The plumage looks like it would be a hindrance in the wild, though less so than the gaudier males.
One of the primroses by the Smestow Valley Ranger Station after heavy overnight rain had bounced some bits of soil onto the flowers.