Red flowers on a hawthorn tree, just beginning to go over a couple of weeks ago.
Smestow Brook from Trescott Ford footbridge
Moorhen with chicks on a rocky ledge
Flag iris flowering, Newbridge
Two views of the same flowering yellow flag iris. I just moved one pace between the two shots, but that was enough to make all the difference to the canal in the background.
First it is blue from reflected sky, then brown where the water was in shadow. The white blobs on the water are petals which had been brought down by heavy rain the previous night.
Spiky
Stitchwort flowers
Canada goose and goslings, Soho
Hawthorn flowering, Birmingham Canal
Ducklings near railway viaduct
Red: chestnut flowers
Red flowers on a horse chestnut tree. Compare the more usual white flowers.