Category: David

Crocus flowering at Bantock Park. First week of this month. No snow, but the flowers wer splattered in mud from the frequent, heavy rain.

Two sparrows drinking the water left out for them.

Spring is coming soon. The catkins on hazels have been developing all winter, and now the buds of the new year’s leaves are beginning to show.

Pollarded tree next to the dovecote on the Dovecotes housing estate, a perch for some of the local jackdaws and starlings.

Large, octagonal seventeenth century dovecote, now at the centre of the Dovecotes housing estate. There’s a small erratic in the foreground of the picture above.

A collared dove, a regular visitor to the ground under garden bird feeders, after the grain which had fallen uneaten.