Category: David

Two of this year’s three West Park cygnets, becoming more independent and now rarely hanging out in sight of the parents. The third cygnet seems more independent-minded still, often separated both from parents and siblings.

Old and weathered elm log on the Castle Green at Bishop.s Castle. Powderhorn lichen growing on some ome the deeper depressions in the wood, adding yet more variety to the textures on show.

Helmeted guineafowl in a field outside Bishop’s Castle. These were all I could see through a very small gap in a dense hedge. From the sounds of them calling, there were more.

Gatekeeper butterfly near Bishop’s Castle. For once, not right by a gate (or stile), but still right on the edge of a field, in the hedge.

A party of four swans overhead as they flew upstream above the Severn at Atcham recently.

Rabbits near the edge of a cornfield. The oats had been harvested, but wide rows of piled-up stalks remained.