I went down to Old Nursery Pond earlier this month to see if I could spot any sign of frog spawn. I couldn’t spot any spawn in the places where the state of the bank let me get close to the water, either there or in Willow Pond.
What I did see – the recent heavy rains had left what looked like a second pond, on the opposite side of the footpath, in one of the clearings in the wood.
Turkey tail fungus spreading up the trunk of a fallen tree in Bantock Park – the same trunk sheltering the snowdrops in the previous post.
One group of the snowdrops in the grounds of Bantock Park had ended up in a sheltered spot, half-hidden under the arch of a fallen tree trunk.
Magpie flying off as it fled from me, to the safety of one of the trees in West Park.
Lesser celandines flowering usually marks the arrival of spring weather. These first few lone pioneers earlier this month were in or on the edge of Old Nursery Wood.
Look carefully wherever large numbers of mallards gather, like the lake at West Park. In among them, there’s quite likely to be one or two birds which are the result of an encounter between a mallard and some other species of duck.
