Red kite high over the recently created local nature reserve by the Avon upstream of Stratford. It was possibly following the river upstream. It may even live nearby.
We don’t visit the reserve very often, but we’ve seen red kites several times now: pictures here and here. This time, once again, all I managed to get were a couple of record shots.
A big patch of wood anemones growing in Holy Trinity churchyard, Stratford. These are definitely planted, not growing wild: the wild version has white flowers.
Squirrel on a tree right by a busy footpath along the Avon at Stratford, standing crouched in the same position on a tree trunk despite people passing. As we got closer it looked like it might be nibbling on a snack. It looked very squat. Was that its posture, or perhaps was it heavily pregnant?
One small corner of Holy Trinity churchyard in Stratford on Avon has patches of wildflowers which flower very early in the year .
In January, there’s winter aconites adding bright yellow. Come March, it’s the turn of violets and lesser celandines, intermixed and showing complementary colours of yellow and purple.
A song thrush searching for food in the short grass under trees in Bantock Park.
At the start of the month, catkins on a pussy willow growing by the lake in West park were just beginning to develop.