Category: David

Cat on the prowl behind the Conservatory at West Park.

Coot on its nest on West Park lake, brooding eggs.

Selection, mainly of flowers, seen on lockdown exercise walks.

Recently hatched coot chicks with one of the parent birds, close to the shore of West Park boating lake island.

Two wisterias, one with the standard purple flowers, the other white, already at the height of their flowering right at the start of May.

There had been no sign of the West Park greylag geese for a week and a half. I was beginning to worry that a predator had got them, or perhaps they had retreated to one of the islands. In their first few days, the parent birds had become increasingly hostile to any humans anywhere nearby.

Then a visit on a different time of day – the rain only gave up late afternoon.

Goslings still all present, and looking healthy. When first noticed, they were running at top speed towards the bread being scattered by someone.