David

One of the West Park moorhens seemed intent on trampling down a patch of daisies as it searched for food.

Copper beeches coming into leaf. From the numbers of mature trees scattered around the city, they were highly fashionable early last century, perhaps even late in the century before.

Lesser stitchwort, flowering from early spring and through the summer. Once believed to help wounds heal faster.

Cow parsley, an early flowering and delicate umbellifer. Also called Queen Anne’s lace.

One stalk of a dandelion which had already shed its seeds was standing proud over the water of the canal.

Holly blue butterflies are a regular April feature along the canal footpath near Compton. This year they seemed even more evident. There was a new one resting either on the ivy in the hedgerow, or on the footpath itself, every ten yards or so.