Wolves Wild

The male muscovy duck at Perton skulking under the cover of low bushes where the Penk feeds into the pool, alert to the chance of picking up some of the offerings from mothers and toddlers.

Cherry tree by Perton pool, the flowers just beginning to open.

Swan pair on West Park’s boating lake, part way through a courting dance. The dance is a long period of synchrosised actions. It includes spells were the birds alternately dip their heads under the water, then raise them to dribble out the water they have filled their mouths with.

Tightly-pressed cluster of scarlet elf cup fungi growing under the hedge by the farm track at Northycote Farm. This year, I have been noticing these fungi for the first time in lots of places I regularly visit.

Shoveller pair on West Park boating lake, taking a brief pause from swimming round in tight circles, “shovelling” the water in fronot of them for food.

Seen with a week still left of February, my first violet flowers of the year. By the canal footpath at Penkridge, growing among chickweed.