Circular feeding: shovellers

Circular feeding: shovellers

Shovellers, another species of ducks where a small flock gather on the sheltered municipal lakes like this at West Park for the winter. They feed by swimming round in tight circles, their beaks just under the surface of the water.

Circular feeding: shovellers

Mistle thrush searching

Mistle thrush searching

Mistle thrush searching one of the patches of short grass near the West Park bandstand, after tasty morsels.

Parasol mushroom, just emerging

Parasol mushroom, just emerging

Parasol species mushroom, just emerging in then shadow of one of the hedges in Bantock Park. It was too soon to see what type of parasol it was.

Line of beauty (rail with gulls)

Line of beauty (rail with gulls)

The rails around the edge of West Park’s boating lake are a favourite lookout point for the resident gulls. Black headed and lesser black backed gulls chose this curving section.