I must have been the first person to go round the West Park boating lake one morning, as I disturbed one of Wolverhampton’s ring-necked parakeets which had been resting on the fence.
The bird immediately took off, and flew to the greater security of a perch among the tops of the trees on the island.
As we move into spring, the colours of nature are getting mor4 varied. Here is some magenta, as the flowers on a ribes bush begin to open.
Grey wagtail on the grill covering the Finchfield Brook as it emerges from a culvert by the Railway Walk.
On a magnolia just about to flower, the petals just emerging from the furry bud. The same bud, seen from tow different angles.
Heron, fishing recently by the canal at Compton – don’t know why it wasn’t with other herons at one of the local heronries.
Moments after I had stopped to take its picture, a small yappy dog came running loose on the bankside footpath in the field behind it, so the bird took off.
Female yew flowers (compare the male flowers in the post yesterday, below). The female flowers grow under the stem they are attached to, the males above.