Category: David

Holly blue butterfly on towpath at Castlecroft. These small butterflies seem to like the path as a place to rest as they get warm ready to fly in the mornings.

Buds and flowers half-open and completely open on red campions growing in the same patch in the hedgerow between Compton and Wightwick.

After the gull had had its fill of the carp, tow magpies approached, checked carefully that the larger bird wasn’t watching, then began to eat enthusiastically. Other magpies soon joined in

West Park, just over an hour ago. A dead carp, already partly eaten, lies across the path by the lake. A lesser black backed gull, beak deep in the fish, perhaps responsible for dragging it ashore. It takes one more mouthful, then, apparently replete, flies off.

Swimming in the canal, clost together about half way between Newbridge and Horden Road, two mallards, each of which had a recently hatched set of ducklings: four with one bird, six with the other.

Flowers at the end of twigs on one of the ash trees in Bantock Park, handily only a little above eye level over one of the paths.