Category: David

Bright red crab apples growing on a tree behind Compton Lock, perhaps half the usual size for crab apples.

In the breeding season, herons head for the heronry they belong too. Outside that time, each of they heads off to make its separate way. But sometimes two or more of them end up as near neighbours.

When that happens, they seem to act like they are totally unaware they are not alone. These were two herons on West Park’s boating lake island recently, yards apart but never looking at the other.

I didn’t get up close to inspect, but I think the bales, left for at least some days in a field by Berkswell, were of hay rather than the silage which is more usual these days.

Late-autumn views along the ridge of the Malvern Hills on an overcast morning, with the lowest whisps of the cloud just brushing the hills

One of the many forms taken by fungi with fruiting bodies which aren’t mushrooms – coral fungi are a group which look like they belong a fathom deep in warm tropical seas. This was growing in one of the beds of the Castle Grounds, Bridgnorth.

Greenfinches, one at a time, eating on a seed feeder. There’s also a couple of flying visits from a bluetit.