David

Tightly-pressed cluster of scarlet elf cup fungi growing under the hedge by the farm track at Northycote Farm. This year, I have been noticing these fungi for the first time in lots of places I regularly visit.

Shoveller pair on West Park boating lake, taking a brief pause from swimming round in tight circles, “shovelling” the water in fronot of them for food.

Seen with a week still left of February, my first violet flowers of the year. By the canal footpath at Penkridge, growing among chickweed.

Just seen, out of focus behind a screen of reeds, a little grebe on the big pool at Perton. I was told it had been trying to eat a fish which was too big to swalow.

Pink cherry flowers on a riverside tree at Bridgnorth. Out of focus as the background, the Severn in flood.

Hawthorn bush with the leaves just beginning to emerge from the buds, Perton. On the end of one of the twigs, a robin.