Category: David

Lady’s smock – also sometimes called the cuckoo flower because it supposedly blooms at the same time the cuckoo arrives from migration. These days finding the flower is much more likely than hearing the bird calling.

Pasqueflowers are so called because they supposedly flower at Easter. I noticed these in a front garden over the Mayday Bank Holiday weekend. They were definitely beginning to fade, but I liked their colours and textures.

Goats, including a nanny with young kid in a pen within the pen, stretching out in morning sunshine on Mary Arden’s Farm, Wilmcote. Possibly Arapawa goats.

Yellow archangel, yellow flowers on a plant which looks rather like a nettle. These were growing by a path in a patch of woodland by the Penk, between the two pools at Perton.

One of a pair of moorhens with some of the six chicks, still very young, out on the water of the pool at Compton Park. This outing was at the end of last month.

Jack by the hedge, otherwise known as garlic mustard, and nowadays sometimes a target for the wild food foraging fraternity. Often found in hedgerows (where else?) flowering in spring.