Category: David

This treetop rookery is on the edge of Wolverhampton Racecourse – though it’s seen here from the other side, looking up from the canal towpath.

Red dead nettle, flowering, by the Royal tram stop. The flowers, to me, look more purple than red. And while the plant looks a bit like a nettle, it isn’t actually one. That’s why it’s “dead”, that is, it doesn’t sting.

Grey wagtail feeding on a mudbank in the Smestow Brook, between the culvert carrying the water under Wolverhampton Racecourse and Tunstall Water Bridge taking it across the canal.

A second bird was briefly visible while I was getting out my camera, but disappeared round a corner before I was ready to take any pictures.

Chickweed growing in a patch of soil on a pavement by one of the main roads into Wolverhampton. When I took these close-ups a couple of weeks ago, the tiny flowers were just beginning to open.

Pair of great crested grebes on the water at Pool Hall Fisheries. They hadn’t got round to the full, impressive courtship display while I was there, but they seemed to be working up to it. Each was closely watching what the other was doing as they synchronised their preening.

Closer views of the same cormorant as in the previous post. Because of the lighting conditions, the bird was now in silhouette.