Trio of gosling greylags with their West Park resident parents. Growing up fast, and now hard to distinguish from their parents – a little smaller when watched carefully.
Fruits, flowers, galls
Ripening raspberries, honeysuckle or vibernum berries; flowers from a potato, Himalayan balsam and a yarrow, and a sycamore leaf covered in red nail mite galls in this varied selection.
Smooth newt (under bird bath)
Small, perhaps young, smooth newt which hangs out under a bird bath, perhaps because there are plenty of small slugs there for it to eat.
Growing up fast: West Park cygnets
This year’s West Park cygnet pair, hatched back in late March or early April, are now growing up fast.
Textures: wood and stone
Striking textures from two objects on opposite sides of the start of a farm track at Ebstree. Deep grooving in the wood of the stump of a long felled tree. Long shallow horizontal grooves in the stone of a large sandstone boulder, possibly an erratic.
frog in a bird bath
Keeping cool and hydrated is important while we have a heatwave. The same goes for frogs, like this young one partly submerged in the water of a bird bath.