David

Yellowhammer perched on the top of a hawthorn hedge, proclaiming its territory.

Tulips in the garden at Wightwick Manor.

The flowers seemed to have been at their best for the recent open weekend.

The first, solitary, bluebell I’ve spotted this year. It was growing on the grassy bank between Hawthorn Wood and the canal, not far from Dunstall Water Bridge.

Two separate wood pigeons, neither of which seemed at all disturbed when I walked up close enough to get these pictures.

Some of the group of jackdaws which were sharing a tree by the canal at Compton, early one morning.

Frogspawn, already beginning to develop. The weather this spring has not been good for breeding frogs (and others).

All today’s posts are from the lower pool in the Wightwick Manor garden.