Category: David

Swan preening on the pool at Perton, another being more through near the stream inlet to the pool.

A pair of tufted ducks, floating on West Park boating lake, dozing but keeping an eye out for any problems.

On the stem at the edge of the clump, this daff was just beginning to open during a brief sunny spell on a morning where one shower followed another.

Courtship dance: a swan pair on West Park boating lake swim in parallel, mirroring each others movements. This was only a short manoeuvre, possibly the species equivalent of a first date. A more extended version of such a routine is the prelude to the mating of a swam pair (they are lifetime monogamous).

Dryad’s saddle growing on a tree on the Smestow edge of the Paddock, Smestow Valley LNR. It’s a spring / summer fungus, but this and several smaller fruiting bodies growing on the same trunk had already been around long enough to be looking tired and elderly.

Dunnock perching on of of the branches of a bush in the Castle Grounds, Bridgnorth.