Wolves Wild

The new year’s growth on a dock plant. Many dock leaves have the characteristic marking of red-rimmed flecks: another viral infection?

Bright yellow pollen on a pussy willow by the Staffs & Worcs canal and paler on a tree in Compton Park (middle picture below).

Normally towards the top of a tallish tree. To me they look like a heap of twigs.

The white goose is domesticated. The paler of the others, perhaps even both others, a cross.

They seem to have taken up residence where the lawn of a house on Windmill Lane meets the Staffs & Worcs canal – handy for demanding bread from people walking the towpath.

Wild arum leaves are often marked with such black flecks – perhaps a virus.

This reed bed and pool looked very tranquil a couple of weeks ago.