Category: David

Dessicated ear fungus growing through moss on one of the bushes in the hedge by the canal at Castlecroft.

Tulips, flowering last weekend: four blooms were in the Dutch Garden at Bantock Park, the red and yellow one in a front garden nearby.

Swan pair on their nest by the Exeter Canal, with an egg. Possibly a young pair, they had chosen a spot which was only yards from a busy path, with cyclists, joggers, people out for a stroll and many dogs off the lead.

Holly blue butterfly resting by the side of a tiny pebble on the canal towpath at Wightwick, warming itself in the morning sun.

Carrion crow, undisturbed by people close by, on the seaward wall of the coast patgh at Newlyn.

A few flowers on one of the blackthorns in the Barley Field hedge, taken at the same time as the flower buds featured in a post yesterday. From its position, the tree with these flowers caught that little bit more sun.