Early ducklings on the upper pool at Badger.
The grouping below is one section of a flotilla which included two broods which were being herded by both sets of parents.
Here is another of them.
Last weekend the bluebells finally came out in a carpet of flowers.
The view below is of a small wood just outside Rindleford, near Bridgnorth.
And here a view of a smaller patch of the same slope.
Finally from a little wood just a few hundred yards from Boscobel House. Although this picture was taken a couple of days after the others, the flowers are not quite so far out.
Like the comma and tortoiseshell in the past two days posts, this peacock was making the most of the sun on April 13th.
At least a dozen different individuals, including examples from all three species, were on a single five-yard stretch of embankment by the towpath of the Staffs and Worcs canal at the back of Aldersley stadium.