David

Some of the bees visiting the flowers on a patch of blue alkanet in a garden, one one of the rare sunny mornings recently.

Pale wisteria, not white as I thought when I saw it from a distance. Growing all over the from of a house halfway up the Cartway in Bridgnorth.

Sedges flowering by the side of the canal. The flowers almost, but not quite, a colour match for the black and gold of the Wolves strip.

Come the autumn, this will (if it’s a female) have grown into one of the lardger and commoner of the spiders seen around in gardens and outhouses, a cross spider or garden spider. In its juvenile springtime version, it was only a couple of millimeters across.

Spring Pool, Baggeridge Country Park. A large coot chick on a nest not far from the shore, Preening. nearby, an adult coot is feeding water weed to a smaller coot chick. Smaller coot chick then swims over to the nest, climbs on to join the larger one, which then interrupts its preening and seems to be feeding the smaller chick as well.

Hawthorn flowers, also known as may, cos that’s the month they shows. The cold and damp spring this year heant the flowers only started opening around the middle of the month.