Category: David

Flowering cowslips by one of the many paths crossing the barley Field.

This common carder bee was a very busy bee, managing only a little pollen from each alkanet flower so hurrying from one to another.

I’m noticing more cuckoo flowers as I walk around this year. These were in the Barley Field, and growing in shallow water at the edge of Old Nursery Pond.

A group of eight or ten coots were on the shore near West Park lake recently. This bird seemed unhappy with its neighbour for some reason, and was slowly stalking towards it with body tensed in threat posture.

Common daisies are in flower almost all round the year. But there’s a brief moment in spring when they reach their height. Lawns where they haven’t been persecuted, and other areas of short grass, can seem coverred in daisies.

It’s been a cold spring. While all the usual butterfly species have been around, I’ve noticed far fewer of them than usual. The exception, possibly, is speckled woods. here are a couple of them, sunning themselves to warm up for the day.