Meadow foxtail – one of the grasses in the wildflower meadow area of Bantock Park. Thanks to iNaturalist.org for the identification.
#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.
#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.
#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.
#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.
#lockdown Flowers, white dead nettle
White dead nettle flowering – it isn’t a nettle, and doesn’t sting.