Category: David

Spider, type unidentified but one which builds a funnel web, on the inner rim of a compost bin. Quite large for a British spider, so possibly the female of the species.

Horse chestnut leaf buds on the same tree at slightly different stages of opening, seen against the blue sky of a sunny morning.

Ribes flowers dangling at the end of their twig. These were on a bush in the Science Park.

Patch of lesser celandines growing by the canal towpath not far from the Tunstall Water Bridge, seen here around the middle of March.

Dunnock, singing continually while perched on twig in a hawthorn bush. A week or so back, the leaves of the hawthorn weere just beginning to open.

Patch of greater celandine leaves in the middle of last month: these were growing by the towpath not far from Aldersley Junction.

Greater celandines (poppy family) flower later in the spring than lesser celandines (buttercup family).