David

This rather unprepossessing flower was one of the many Oxford ragworts thriving in Barley Field, Smestow Valley.

The magpie further from the camera is one of this year’s chicks, now half grown. The nearer bird is one of its parents.

Lambs’ lugs are also known as lambs’ ears – another flower which caught my eye in someone’s front garden.

Rosebay willowherb flowers beginning to open – those lower on the stem coming out first.

This stalk of grass was one of the survivors of a recent mowing, which helped it stand out more than usual.

This was one of several tiny pansies flowering by the side of a minor road round the corner from the entrance to the Pendeford Mill Nature Reserve.