Wolves Wild

Flowers and newly-opened leaves on some of the beech trees in West Park. Come the autumn, these will have become beech mast.

Once again the two West Park greylag families were out on the shore, not far from one another. Both sets of goslings were grazing on the same patch of short grass. Both sets of adults were on the footpath, standing on sentry duty.

It’s a bunch of violets. I couldn’t bend down to picture them from their own level, so I shot straight down from directly above as an alternative.

Two robins on the canal footpath near Meccano Bridge. I couldn’t work out whether they were a pair, or rivals getting ready for a fight.

Some of the wood forget-me-nots (Myosotis sylvatica) flowering by the Railway Walk. Possibly, given their position, self-seeded from ones in a garden somewhere along Henwood Road.

Joining the greylag geese whose goslings have already featured in posts here in recent days, a second set of parents. When I first noticed them, the families were near one another, “creche-ing”. The six goslings which had hatched earlier, already visibly larger, were feeding on a grassy patch. The younger brood, a trio which were still tiny and fluffy, were finding things to eat in the tarmac of the footpath. Both sets of parents were vigilant,