Category: David

More of the traditional breeds livestock from Mary Arden’s Farm in Wilmcote – contented seeming sheep and goats on a sunny autumn morning.

Berries at different stages of ripening on a honeysuckle, and one of the flowers still on the plant on the same day recently.

This has been a good year for privet berries – a small selection here at different stages of ripening.

Long-tailed tits in semi-silhouette, one of a small group which carried on flitting about in the tree even when I was standing directly underneath.

Young rabbit running for the shelter of a hedge.

Swallows on a telephone wire as they prepare to set off on their long journey to southern Africa, resting and occasionally preening their feathers.

The middle bird was an adult, the others this year’s young. Occasionally, one of these young would make a cry demanding to be fed. The parent made no response.