David

Assortment of spring flowers – pictures I’ve just noticed I didn’t get around posting at the time.

The nearest I saw this year to a carpet of bluebells. Seen from a footpath in Baggeridge Country Park, looking across a fence which carried a notice every few yards that it protected private woodland.

There’s also some snake’s head fritillaries, wood anemones, apple blossom and wild garlic flowers.

Greylag goose on the lake at West Park. Flying as it was honking aggresively, seeing off a rival which had encrouched onto what it considered its own patch of water.

Early morning after a cold May night, a caterpillar unmoving and apparently asleep on a hazel leaf.

Courtship pigeon style, West Park. The male puffs himself up and struts about forcefully, the female walking away. The male continues strutting, still trying to get the female’s attention. This time, a jogger came along the other footpath. The male was distracted briefly, tbe female vamoosed.

Whitebeam flowers fully open on a tree by the lale in West Park.

Pair of pied wagtails on the edge of the canal on Mermaid Wharf at Wightwick. They were unworried by my presence, safely on the opposite side of the water.