Category: David

Two trios of mallards, asleep not far from West Park’s boating lake recenty. The groups were on different sides of the path around the lake, with only ten or so yards separating them.

Wallflowers flowering from the stonework of the precariously leaning remaining walls of Bridgnorth Castle recently.

Some of the lupins in flower in the gardens of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust property, New Place, in Stratford on Avon.

One of the West Park magpies, by the edge of the boating lake after taking a drink of the water, then on the fence at the edge of the lake.

Resident swans on West Park lake have had breeding successes for several years in a row. Here a pair of protective adults with their brood of six cygnets which were only a day or two old when these pictures were taken the middle of last month.

The bright orange and yellow of hawkbit flowers contrasting with the green of a lawn in the background, noticed in passing in someone’s front garden.