Category: David

Abstract picture with limited colour range and complex textures. Close-up of the back of a young swan on the lake at West Park. The dull brown juvenile feathers beginning to be replaced by adult white.

Mound of earth by the entrance to a badger sett which is still being actively extended. A group of mushrooms growing on the peak of the evacuated sandy soil had been part covered when the badgers had thown out yet more debris.

The main lake in the Nature Reserve at Pendeford Mill on a misty morning recently.

Heron standing thigh-deep in the canal near Aldersley Junction on a misty morning recently. Every minute or so it pounced, came up with a small fish, and ate it.

Fuchsia flowers, still out with their bright, summery colours. These were on a plant it the garden around Lavington’s Hole, Bridgnorth.

Green and red, evergreen leaves and the bright red of the fleshy aril. This looks like a berry, but actually a fleshy coating to a single seed, a modified cone. The seeds, like most parts of the tree, are poisonous.