David

Once more, a collection of plants I have noticed on my lockdown walks and bike rides, mainly flowers, and mainly wild. The bean flowers and lavender flowers are from gardens.

A recent late-morning vist to West Park, and two sets of goose parents were shepherding their goslings across the boating lake at the same time. One set of the Canada goslings and one of the greylags, in their respective convoys.

The canal towpath is rather narrow for keeping physical distance from people coming the other way, so an early morning excursion along a short stretch brought me to Aldersley Junction, quiet even with a lone angler on the opposite path.

Coot chicks, very young and keeping close to the nest on West Park lake, being fed by one of the parent birds.

Now well into spring, but there are still a few cold nights leading to frosty mornings, and plants decorated like these.

The older set of greylag goslings being led across West Park boating lake by their parents. As they swam across, the parents were also teaching the young ones to dive to get their feathers wet, cleaning themselves as they surfaced.

First picture in the set is the splash as one of the goslings submertged.