Category: David

Large gathering of swans, many of them immature, on the Avon at Stratford, waiting to be fed by tourists. A Canada goose was surrounded by the crowd.

Showy flowers from a canalside flag iris, one of which had attracted a tiny bronze beetle.

Mallard ducklings, with mother, noticed by West Park’s boating lake on Monday. So small they must have hatched earlier that day.

Heron at the foot of Lucy’s Mill Weir on the Avon at Stratford. Peering intently like it was in hunting mode, with its gaze on the bank, not the water by its feet.

Ferret dozing, three or perhaps four in a hammock at mary Arden’s Farm, Wilmcote. One hanging out, drooping like it was made of bendy rubber.

Male broad-bodied chaser, resting on a dry plant stem in Baggeridge Country Park. It was probably just a little bit too far from any of the numerous bodies of water in the park to have been in its territory.