Category: David

Two of the resident gulls posing by the basin of the Stratford Canal.

Cones on different trees.

A group of rooks gathering in the treetops.

A spider’s web, anchored on the branches of a bramble, and weighed down with overnight rain.

A collection of decorative elements visible on streets in and around Stratford on vaguely wildlife or animal themes.

The web doorknocker with its spider is on the side door of a restaurant on Sheep Street. The wooden web looks like a later addition to the knocker.

One of the old fashioned lamps near to the Theatre building is decorated with this lively carving of an owl. Not pictured here are the other carvings, of Bottom playing a lute, and the fiddler on the roof.

The duck and ducklings (Welford upon Avon) and the cats squaring up for a fight (Weston upon Avon) are the most striking of the makers marks on the ridges of thatched roofs in nearby villages.

Finally, another doorknocker. This time, it is in the form of an elegant swan on a door in Shottery.

This fruit was ripening on a tree in one of the riverside parks in Stratford recently.