A female goosander leads her small brood, a mere two ducklings, upstream on the Severn at Atcham in pouring rain. Just a few shots caught before the birds swam under the old and new road bridges.
Lily pad, Old Nursery Pond
Lily pad, when its leaf had only risen to the surface of the water and spread.
This was one of the plants growing in Old Nursery Pond.
Mayfly madness, Severn, Shrewebury
River Severn at Shrewsbury, towards the end of May. A slightly warmer day, and the air above the river was tick with mayflies.
They formed clouds over the water. They were still swirling around in clouds across our third storey hotel window, across the road from the river.
They were settling on riverside vegetation. They were settling on the orientation boards by the riverside footpath.
Some even made it into our hotel room.
Ribwort Plantain Plantago lanceolata
Ribwort plantain. A garden weed, and, like many garden weeds, considerred to have medicinal properties by those who go in for herbal cures.
Family time, West Park (swans)
Another visit to West Park. This time the swan family, with the three still young cygnets, were resting right by the side of the lake.
Campion out
A patch of red campion in flower. This was growing on the edge of the area of marshy land by the pond in Compton Park.