Category: David

A few of the mass of white flowers on a cherry tree, this one in West Park.

Back and tail fin of a large carp breaking the surface of shallow water near the edge of the fishing pool at Perton. There were at least two of them there, and they may have been getting ready to mate.

Seven coot chicks, from their appearance only recently hatched and perhaps on their first outing on the water, with their parents on the River Avon by the Tramway Bridge at Stratford.

The chicks still have the egg tooth, the white area at the end of their beaks which is used to break through the shell and emerge into the world.

Seven is a large brood for coots.

Sycamore leaf buds, still tightly closed and just beginning to open. These were on a sycamore growing in a hedge, and so they were conveniently just below eye level.

Horse chestnut flowers, in different stages of opening on the same West Park tree. The flowers are arranged on a spike rising from the twig, the structure resembling a candelabra.

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.