Category: David

A male tufted duck on West Park lake. As ever, proving quite hard to photograph, because it seems to dive as soon as I get it into focus.

The well-separated petals of fully open star magnolia flowers, with their delicate scent.

Another of the West Park magpies. This one landed perhaps four yards from where I was unpacking my camera, and immediately started rooted around in the undergrowth. It was aware I was there, occasionally glancing at me before carrying on fossicking among the fallen leaves.

Camelias from another bush in the same garden as yesterday’s. The flowers on this one were not quite as far out.

A dunnock calling from a perch high in a tree. It carried on undisturbed even though it knew we had stopped to watch it, confident it was safe where it was.

It’s spring, so it’s time for spring-flowering camelias to flower. These were all on the same bush.