David

More of this year’s new ducklings on the canal, another two broods, both looking recently hatched. One set at Newbridge, the other not far from Aldersley Junction.

A mass of horse chestnut flower buds arranged around the so-called candelabrum.

Heron and magpie, close together on canal path in countryside near Castlecroft.

Someone came along walking a dog. The heron was first to blink, taking off to retreat to the nearby Smestow Brook.

Speckled wood butterfly, its wings folded together, well camougflaged as it rests on the ground in a clearing in Old Nursery Wood.

Green veined white butterfly resting on a dandelion clock, by the canal opposite the Wildside Centre. Not sure why it chose that one. There were plenty of dandelions and other plants in flower nearby.

West Park goose, by its plumage a cross between a greylag and a domesticated variety.