Category: David

Three magpies on the ground looking like they are up to something. There again, magpies in groups on the ground usually look like they are up to something

Flowers on with hazel bushes: yellow and the less commonly found orange. Some of the yellow flowers are from one of the bushes in West Park. The others, and the orange flowers, are from a front garden across the road from Bantock Park.

A pair of swans ducking their heads into the water of the lake at West Park, Wolverhampton to feed.
It may be just that they are hungry. But perhaps if I’d stayed around they would have increasingly synchronised their movements, eventually conducting an elaborate dance, culminating in mating. It’s the right time of year.

Rind of a cheese which had been left in the fridge for far too long, and had developed a growing colony of penicillin mould.

West Park has been having more visits than usual from ducks with mixed ancestry, mallard plus some other species.

First there was this female, seen one day but not the next or ever since. Now here is a drake, which again just put in a one-time appearance. A couple of days after he’d been and gone, yet another duck put in its brief appearance, too far away to be worth a shot with the camera I had that day.

Every year there’s snowdrops under the trees nearest the house in Bantock Park. Things might be getting a little warmer soon!