Category: David

Young English longhorn calf, sharing a field with its mother, sampling the grass on Mary Arden’s Farm, Wilmcote.

Seeds nestling in the seed cases of a winter aconite. The plant, growing in the churchyard of Holy Trinity, Stratford on Avon, flowered in January.

One of the West Park magpies, searching for things to eat in short grass with daisies by the boating lake.

As yet unopened buds of whitebeam flowers, bunched together on twigs, here of one of the trees in West Park at the end of April.

Looking down from Stratford’s Tramway Bridge to a Canada goose nest on a small island in the Avon. The bird sitting on the four eggs (the female?) left the nest briefly to eat in the river. Its mate stood near the nest, calling until the sitter returned to position. As it sat back on the eggs, it began plucking feathers from its chest to add to those lining the nest.

A sunny spring morning recently and midges were out in clouds. They seemed to prefer to congregate above the side weirs of canals, here by Wightwick Lock.