Category: David

The birds attracted to a garden seed-feeder in one twenty-minute period. Two titmouse species, a dunnock, and a brief visit by a blackcap.

Heron stalking off to hide among the trees on the boating lake island, West Park.

Icy clump of lichen growing on a wall by the Birmingham Canal.

Extreme contortion: swan stretching its neck to reach right under its wing, preening while afloat on the West Park boating lake.

One of the first signs of the approach of spring: wild garlic emerging by the canal at Aldersley Junction. A shade-loving plant, like many other woodland ground species, it gets its growth early in the year, before the trees grow their leaves to monopolise the sunlight.

Heron hunched up in the water at the canal’s edge, just downstream of Aldersley Junction on a bitterly cold January morning.