David

Male pheasant in the field between the canal and the Smestow Brook at Compton. Seemingly unaware of my presence on the other side of the hedge.

More spring flowers starting to come out. These red dead nettles were growing in the shelter of garden walls on a pavement at Castlecroft.

“Dead” because they may look like nettles, but they’re not. So there’s no sting.

Squirrel on a grassy area on one of the wide pavements in Castlecroft, gathering nesting material for its dray.

Wren, just about visible, standing at the edge of the Finchfiled Brook. It was skulking behind the grill at the end of the culvert, where the brook emerges into daylight after passing under the Railway Walk.

I must have been the first person to go round the West Park boating lake one morning, as I disturbed one of Wolverhampton’s ring-necked parakeets which had been resting on the fence.

The bird immediately took off, and flew to the greater security of a perch among the tops of the trees on the island.

As we move into spring, the colours of nature are getting mor4 varied. Here is some magenta, as the flowers on a ribes bush begin to open.