Category: David

Adult swans with their cygnets, finding stuff to eat in a canal lock.

Small moth resting and possibly feeding on dock flowers last month.

Half-grown moorhen chick swimming in the canal by the Wildside Centre. I couldn’t see any sign of parent birds or other chicks, likely hiding in the bankside vegetation nearby.

Small patch of dyer’s woad flowering on Mary Arden’s Farm. Before the invention of synthetic dyes, this was one of the plants widely cultivated for colouring cloth (not to mention the skins of ancient Britons).

Large group of swans on the Avon at Stratford, demanding to be fed. They were bobbing and raising their heads at the same time as they watched for the food.

Large poppies in the gardens of the Shakespeare Birthplace and New Place recently.