Category: David

The two islands, each in the middle of one of the lobes in the lake in West Park. Well-wooded refuges for the resident birds.

A pair of magpies carefully search in short grass, finding plenty to snack on.

Celandines grown to form a mat of plants, flowering on a sunny morning. These were in front of a block of up-market flats, housed in what used to be the local offices of Customs & Revenue.

A pussy willow right by the edge of West Park lake. When these pictures were taken, the catkins had completely opened, and were beginning to develop their bright yellow pollen.

The birds on the lake at Perton all seemed to be taking it easy near to the island. This one wood pigeon was standing on the fence at the spot where people come to feed the ducks.

Back again for (at least) the sixth consecutive year, a turtle which was probably originally abandoned in the lake at West Park.

In the spring, it regularly spends its time on sunny days basking on a fallen log by one of the islands. Some years, it stays there until well in the summer. Others, it disappears, probably having found a less disturbed spot to hang out. Over the winter, it hibernates in the deep mud at the bottom of the lake.