Bare soil on the bank by the Mops Farm Bridge over the Staffs and Worcs canal; the same bank where patches of violets and celandines were flowering.
Small, circular holes in the soil, with bees climbing in and out of the holes: mining bees and their nests.
Possibly the bees included the one gathering pollen from a patch of celandine flowers, ten yards or so beyond the bridge.
The viscous sticky coating can still be seen on these half-open horse chestnut buts.
Comma butterfly resting on a dusty canalside footpath, spreading its wings in the morning sun to get warm enough to fly.
Dogs mercury flowering, and beginning to turn to seed. Usually found in shady woodland, but this was under the hedge by the canalside footpath.
Mining bee, possibly a tawny mining bee (Andrena fulva), going for flower to flower in a patch of lesser celandine, adding a little to its already bulging pollen baskets at each one.
Clematis flowering, covering much of the street-facing one of one of the houses on the Cartway at Bridgnorth.
