Category: David

It’s a bunch of violets. I couldn’t bend down to picture them from their own level, so I shot straight down from directly above as an alternative.

Two robins on the canal footpath near Meccano Bridge. I couldn’t work out whether they were a pair, or rivals getting ready for a fight.

Some of the wood forget-me-nots (Myosotis sylvatica) flowering by the Railway Walk. Possibly, given their position, self-seeded from ones in a garden somewhere along Henwood Road.

Joining the greylag geese whose goslings have already featured in posts here in recent days, a second set of parents. When I first noticed them, the families were near one another, “creche-ing”. The six goslings which had hatched earlier, already visibly larger, were feeding on a grassy patch. The younger brood, a trio which were still tiny and fluffy, were finding things to eat in the tarmac of the footpath. Both sets of parents were vigilant,

The flowers on horse chestnut trees arranged around elaborate structures which rise up from the branches. Come autumn, the same branches will be weighed down with a harvest of conkers.

One of the coots’ nests on the lake at West Park. The coots are brooding eggs. They’re a species which shares the work of parenting, but not necessarily equally.

Both parents spend some time sitting on the eggs, but I suspect the female works longer shifts. The time spent off the eggs isn’t exactly for lazing around. The bird in the water is kept busy bringing more building material for the nest.