Rookery in the small wood by the bus stop at Wyken on the Wolverhampton to Bridgnorth road. It’s often noisy even heard above the din of the passing traffic, but only a few rooks and nests visible. Just after I had taken these pictyres, something spooked they birds, possibly a a passing bird of prey. What seemed like at least a hundred rooks took flight, circling and cawing.
Red dead nettle growing in a patch by one of the footpaths across the Doxey Marshes Nature Reserve. Apart from the flowers it looks similar to nettle, but isn’t. The “dead” just means it doesn’t sting.
High wire at Worfield, with a goldfinch perching where it can see and be seen.
Field near Worfield with ewes and their young lambs relaxing in warm midday sun. A high proportion of the ewes seemed to have had twim lambs.
One of the lambs had chosen what looked like a comfortable spot to sunbathe – resting on its mother’s back, leaving no room for its sibling to join it.
Rookery at the top of the hill on the outskirts of Worfield. One of a pair of rooks which were flying in and out of a nest high in a tree, and the nest itself.
Comma butterfly speading its wings on ground in Compton Rough, warming itself in the spring sunshine.