What remained in mid-April of a larger tufted duck flock which had overwintered on West Park lake. Over the winter, numbers of males and females had been approximately equal. Here the drakes heavily outnumbered the ducks.
Ribwort plantain: another one which isn’t actually a flower, it’s a non-flowering plant.
A caterpillar moving at speed across a canal footpath, heading for the vegetation by the water’s edge. It’s a wood tiger moth caterpillar (considered a pest by fruit tree growers) which would struggle to find any wood to burrow into without reversing its direction.
Yellow asphodel (a.k.a. king’s spear) growing in the front garden of one of the houses opposite Bantock Park.
Tulips in the Dutch Garden at the back of Bantock House, around the peak of their flowering. The mid-morning sunlight shining through the petals made them look almost fluorescent.
One of the cowslips flowering in the widlflower meadow area of Bantock Park.
