The West Park turtle climbing out of the lake and on to its favourite sunbathing spot. Once it gets itself settled firmly, it turns to face the right direction for keeping an eye on the nest of the coots which have a couple of young chicks
Beech flowering
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.
Bunch of violets, flowering
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.
Robins on canal footpath
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.
Wood forget-me-nots, Railway Walk
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.





