Category: David

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.

Brood of seven coot chicks, still all present and correct three days after I first pictured them, now venturing rather further out on the water of the River Avon guarded by both parents. They were still demanding to be fed by the adults, but some of them had already also learned to serve themselves from algae growing on brickwork just above water level.

Iris, flower buds and an opened flower, overlooking the basin of the Stratford Canal and the Avon, Bancroft Gardens, Stratford.

Pair of swans, their necks curled back over their bodies, asleep in what may be there nest.

Early on a sunny but chilly spring morning, a bee resting on a sycamore leaf to get warmer. A few galls can also be seen on the leaf.

They look like very old carpets have been brought to life, but these mangalitzas on Mary Arden’s Farm at Wilmcote have more character than either of the other two types of rare breed pigs there, Tamworths or Oxford sandy and black.