David

Mangalitza piglets, half grown, in the piglet sty at Mary Arden’s Farm. When I first spotted them, they were strolling round their enclosure. By the time I had got my camera out, they were dozing in the sun, right up against the brickwork of the front wall.

Heron at Bag’s Pool, Baggeridge Country Park. On two separate occasions as I went past the pool, the bird was standing on the wooden platform in the middle of the water. Eech time, its response to noticing me watching it was to retreat to the shelter of the bulrush bed opposite.

Mangalitza sow given her own sty separate from the other adult pigs on Mary Arden’s Farm, Wilmcote. I couldn’t see any staff around to ask why, but perhaps a litter on the way.

Collared dove sitting on a fence. For once the bird didn’t fly off as I cme down the nearby footpath.

Lambs – at least two different species are represented – on Mary Arden’s Farm. A few sheep have sneaked in as well.

Lesser tortoiseshell butterfly caterpillars spotted by the railway station at Wilmcote. One on the leaf of a hazel growing by the ramp leading to the station. The other was crawling along one of the benches on the opposite platform.