The warmer weather has finally brought on some flowers, providing welcome daffodil pollen for insects like this fly.
David
Dryad’s saddles, Smestow Paddock
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
Trousered chickens, Pendeford Mill
More of the impressive livestock at Pendeford Mill Nature Reserve. These birds are hens, not, as I thought, cocks.
Peahen on a fence, Pendeford Mill
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.
Rain and mud on primroses
One of the primroses by the Smestow Valley Ranger Station after heavy overnight rain had bounced some bits of soil onto the flowers.
Rams, Pendeford Mill LNR
Soay sheep ram (first 2 pictures), part of the livestock at the Pendeford Mill Nature Reserve.
Castlemilk moorit ram, also at Pendeford Mill.
Ewes from both breeds are kept in another field across the road. They were pictured here.
