This year’s two West Park cygnets, by the edge of the lake, eating.
#lockdown – unwelcome visitors
Rose aphid with twenty or so young ones, on a rose leaf.
#lockdown – nesting coots
Coots on their nests on West Park lake, probably brooding eggs.
Smestow and Tene
View of the River Smestow and of one of its tributary brooks.
Smestow seen at Seisdon, Trysull and at Trescott Ford.
Tene Brook just about to pass under the Railway Walk by Lower Penn, and at Awbridge. Both pictures of the brook taken on the same day. Awbridge is further downstream, but the brook there is carrying less water. Is some perhaps extracted for watering fields between these two places?
Mixed dining – two gosling species
West Park: two sets of goslings, Canada and greylag geese, eating on the same daisy covered patch of short grass
Common carder bee, bean flowers
These bean flowers are being ignored by the honey been, but these bumble bees seem to be regular visitors. They are common carder bees, according to inaturalists