Category: David

The West Park turtle in one of its regular sunbathing spots, with a young but fast-growing coot in the background.

Not a welcome visitor to gardens, but when pictured this turnip sawfly was taking a rest on a hazel leaf.

Pen, the female swan, swimming with this year’s five cygnets on West Park lake. The cob was a little further away, keeping watch.

Chocolate irises in a front garden; flag irises on the edge of the pool at Fowlers Park.

This year’s sole brood (so far) of young Canada geese from the large West Park flock. The goslings seem to prefer sitting on the tarmac of the footpath around the lake.

More spring fungi. Usually quite common, this is one of the few clusters of glistening inkcaps I’ve noticed this year. They were in Old Nursery Wood, growing from the wood placed to makr the edge of one of the footpaths.