Category: David

Playing can’t see you: three herons on the island on West Park lake. When two or more of these birds are standing nearby other, they often seem to arrange themselves as if they are studiously ignoring each other.

Yellow stagshorn fungus, a common, bright yellow to orange fungus most easily found growing on the ground in winter.These were growing on a woodland floor.

The first snowdrops I’ve seen flowering this winter, out on Christmas Eve in the garden at new Place, Stratford on Avon. A second clump were in the garden of another Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Hall’s Croft, a few days later.

Shoveller pair swimming by on West Park lake. The male much more brightly coloured than the female, as in many bird species.

Yew flowers on a tree by West Park Conservatory in the middle of December. It’s becoming increasingly common for spring growth to appear before the end of the previous year.

Tufted duck splashing water from West Park over its back, vigorously shaking itself to get clean.