Each year, several sets of coot chicks are hatched from nests on West Park lake. Both parents spend quite some time feeding the chicks with vegetation brought up from underwater. Pictured here are chicks from three of the nests.
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Rock rose opening
Flowers opening on a rock rose (cistus) shrub.
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Five cygnets, West Park
It seemed a long wait after coot chicks and goslings started swimming about on West Park lake, but finally some cygnets appeared. Towards the end of last month, ifve of them.
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Rhododendrons, flowers opening
Rhododendrons, when the flower buds were forming and the flowers were just opening.
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Hover fight
Three insects fighting (probably). I thought they were bees, but they are bee-mimicing hoverflies, possibly narcissus bulb flies (Merodon equestris).
They were circling round, flying at one another and retreating, an inch or two over the ground of the Barley Field.
Germander speedwells. These were flowering by the footpath which runs behind Wightwick Mill Lock.
