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Rhododendrons, when the flower buds were forming and the flowers were just opening.

Three insects fighting (probably). I thought they were bees, but they are bee-mimicing hoverflies, possibly narcissus bulb flies (Merodon equestris).

They were circling round, flying at one another and retreating, an inch or two over the ground of the Barley Field.

Germander speedwells. These were flowering by the footpath which runs behind Wightwick Mill Lock.

Jackdaw in Compton Park didn’t like me getting too near, so it was off.

Flowers on a mature whitebeam by the West Park lake, from tightly closed buds to fully open.

There’s now three sets of greylag geese on West Park lake which have produced goslings this year.

When I noticed them, they were all resting on the shore of the lake. Two of the three families seemed to be together, with the third some distance away but still all within sight of one another.