Seen early Sunday morning, the young West Park greylag goose goslings on a daisy-strewn patch of short grass, eating enthusiastically.
The parents were just out of shot, alert on guard.
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#lockdown – meadow foxtail
Meadow foxtail – one of the grasses in the wildflower meadow area of Bantock Park. Thanks to iNaturalist.org for the identification.
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#lockdown – female sparrow again
More pictures of a female sparrow seen on a fat ball feeder and standing on a fence, both sites yards from the tree where her nest is.
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#lockdown Greylags with recent goslings
Pair of greylag geese on the West Park boating lake at the end of last week.
Very young goslings can just be seen, half-hidden by one of the adults. There were at least three of them.
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#lockdown – pieris, new leaves
Pieris bush, West Park. New leaves pale, pinkish. As they mature, the colour will shift towards that of the mmture ones lower down the branches.
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#lockdown Canada goose courtship
Pair of Canada geese on teh West Park boating lake a few days ago, not engaging in the same careful social distancing I was.