Category: David

The roots of this yew in West Park seemed to twist around each other. The tree looks ancient, but is unlikely to be older than the park (founded 1881).

A long way from the sea, this flock in flight is some of the black-headed gulls resident in West Park.

Flowers on a gorse bush by the Birmingham Canal towpath. The breeze that day meant the branch was almost always on the move.

Heron standing, as they often do, balanced on one leg. It was keeping a steady watch over the then ice water of the West Park boating lake.

Taken only a few yards from the pictures in the previous post, this image shows footprints from a set which were also leading to the shore of the frozen West Park lake. Possibly made by one of the resident squirrels, but this pair cayght my eye because they looked like they had been made by impossibly tiny human feet.

One of West Park’s many magpies takes the route it often uses to walk to the lake for a drink of water or a quick bathe. When it gets to the edge, it pauses, frustrated by the ice.