David

This East Park squirrel has found a fat ball someone put out for birds, bitten through the string holding it up, then carried the ball in its mesh bag across the road and high into a tree, where it has begun to make a meal of it.

Heron guarding its nest high in a tree at the Pendeford Mill heronry.

Probably the same bird featured in the previous post. This time the pictures were taken from the far side of the pool.

One of the birds from the heronry at Pendeford Mill Nature Reserve standing sentry duty by its nest, which probably holds a chick. As I stood directly under the tree, the nest looked huge.

Some of the dozen or so denizens of the Pendeford Mill Nature Reserve heronry standing in the field uphill from the reserve.

Each of them seemed to be pretending to be the only bird there, ignoring all the other herons and a handful of Canada geese which were also nearby.

A closer view of one of the wood anemone flowers in the Pendeford Mill Nature Reserve woodland.

A carpet of flowering wood anemone in the woods (where else?) on the Pendeford Mill Nature Reserve.