By early June, the first coot chicks were well enough grown to go off swimming on their own. They were still making plaintive cries to get the parents to feed them
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Off on its own: coot chick
Caterpillar inching its way forwards. If it survives the winter, it should emerge next spring as an orange tip butterfly.
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Watching the growing gosling
When I last visited West Park, back in early June, the sole surviving Canada goose gosling was growing rapidly, but was still being guarded by the parents.
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Golden goat, Cologne
Window display in a Cologne city centre shop devoted to the sale of noble metals, with a scarf which I presumed was in the colours of one of the local football teams.
Round the corner, a popular bar had the same model of statue. This time the goat itself, as well as the scarf it was wearing, in blue and white colours: perhaps the other football team. No pictures of this one – I was too busy drinking their Koelsch.
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Tufties about to dive
One of the pairs of turfed ducks which stayed on West Park lake over the summer. The female was just about to dive in search of something to eat.
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Bluebell, May
From way back in the middle of May, and already at the end of the flowering season even then, a bluebell in the small patch of woodland on the path between Compton Mill Lock and the Railway Walk.