David

Hawthorn blossom (“May”) flowering yesterday in what must be a favoured spot. Most bushes don’t even have signs of the buds yet.

This is from a springtime return to the section of the Staffs and Worcs canal pictured when the canal was frozen.

Birch polypores could be used to sharpen old-fashioned cut-throat razors. The birch tree these were growing on was by the road in Sutton Park. The trunk was in effect a ten foot tall stump, lacking any branches.

Leaf buds on an apple tree, here from the Garden of Moseley Old Hall.

The Million is Forestry Commission woodland north of Kinver.

These frogs had gathered to spawn in the pool by the car park at Northycote Farm in the middle of March.