Growing by the side of Castle Walk, Bridgnorth, a cotton thistle with flowers.
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Cotton thistle, Castle Walk, Bridgnorth
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Assorted goslings, Severn, Bridgnorth
Goslings, some a lot more well grown than others on the day of my visit, by the Severn at Bridgnorth. Their parents part of the resident flock, a mixture of greylag and feral geese.
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Viper’s bugloss growing on a pavement
Possibly a garden escapee, this flowering viper’s bugloss was growing on the pavement of a residential street.
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Young coot on a log, West Park
A young coot, by now almost as big as its parents, stands on the end of a fallen log in West Park lake. Occasionally it takes a few pecks at preening its feathers.
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Wall lettuce by a wall, flowering
One of those urban weeds which I just vaguely noticed but never really paid attention to. Then I got an ID on these pictures. It’s wall lettuce, and does indeed seem happiest right up against walls, on pavements all over the place.
I took these pictures looking directly down at the plant. The very long, thin stems were bowed down, perhaps by the weight of the tiny flowers.
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Shelducks, Rye Harbour Nature Reserve
A pair of shelducks taking their ease on sparsely vegetated shingle on the Rye Harbour nature Reserve. One appeared to be asleep, the other awake and alert.
