Category: David

Ancient sculpture of a bird, either a duck or a goose. A star exhibit at the Musee d’Histoire de Marseille.

Cat looking like it’s ready to spring, a house sign in Low Town, Bridgnorth. The rusty pigeon on a fence was the opposite side of the river in Undercliff.

Brickwork along the South Staffordshire section of the Railway Walk has a growing selection of professional-looking grafitti, including several pictures of wildlife. This scarab-type beetle is one of the more recent additions.

Lamb clasping a wolf, on of the roof bosses in the porch to St Mary’s Church, Chipping Norton.

Bright red bear and bright red giraffe, both of which were standing in front of shops. The giraffe is called Gerald, apparently.

Chipping Campden, like many Cotswolds towns, has many big, old and doubtless expensive houses in its centre. Those on the High Street have front doors directly on the pavement, and many have individualised doorknockers. Running parallel with the high street is the original back lane (actually called Back End).

There many house fronts are obscured behind hedges or walls and front gardens. Several of these houses have what look like bespoke weathervanes. Likely the fleeing fox, and perhaps also the horse and jockey, proclaim support for the local hunt. Not sure what the whale signifies, but it was the one which caught my fancy.