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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.

Tufties, tufted ducks more formally, floating on the West Park lake and occasionally preening. The males have the more noticable black and white plumage; the females mainly black and brown.

Views across the lake at Wollaton Park, Nottingham to Wollaton Hall in its dominant hilltop position.

It’s about five miles from Nottingham city centre. The park, encroached by housing and a golf course compared to the glory days when an entire village was wiped away to create it, is now one of the city council’s public spaces. The lake attracts waterfowl. There’s herds of red and fallow deer. Extensive woods managed for wildlife are again a haven for birds, and are also well-known for fungi in the season.

The hall is now the venue for some of the city’s museums, including a Natural History Museum.

Scarlet elf cups growing on rotting wood under moss on the edge of Compton Rough, a splash of late winter colour.