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View across the lake at Wollaton Park to a heronry in a weeping willow.

There were at least ten birds in the tree. Look out for a couple of male cormorants in breeding plumage by the shore as well (lower right of the image at times).

Late February, but the day felt more like the end of spring. Pink cherry blossom in one of the front gardens on Albert Road, standing out against the blue of the sky.

Lesser tortoiseshell butterfly on a lawn on Albert Road, flitting from daisy to daisy., spotted last weekend. That was about a month before the normal time of first appearance. But earlier sightings have been recorded, with individuals roused from hibernation on warm days in January or even December.

Two of the (too large) flock of Canada geese working their way along one of the lawns eating grass.
In the background, the calls of the other waterfowl and the gulls mixes with the noises of the children’s play area.

March is the month for the flowers of the woodland floor, before the trees grow their leaves and put the ground into deep shage. These wood anemones were in the woodland at the back of the garden at Wightwick Manor back in 2011.

One of the houses excavated from the sandstone cliff at Holy Austin Rock, Kinver. Now a National Trust property.