Category: David

Partly-open leaves on a horse chestnut tree. At this stage, the leaves were still drooping because the tree hadn’t yet pumped enough water in them to raise them.

The reds and greens of a rhubarb in flower. This one was on one of the plots on my local allotments, seen at the end of March.

Flower buds just beginning to open on one of the many rhododendron bushes in West Park – the opened flowers had pure white petals.

The flowers of a snake’s head fritillary look much to large to be carried by the long thin stem, and do droop under their own weight. I noticed these in a well-kept front garden.

Bluebells, partly opened in front gardens, which attracted my attention when I was passing recently. There is a tiny hoverfly on the flower in the lower picture.

Moorhens rarely spend much time higher than ground or water level. This one was in branches of a tree spreading low over West Park’s boating lake, busily preening its feathers.