West Park greylag goose family with the oldest of goslings having a change of scene so the young birds were spending their time eating the short grass in the beds near the Villiers statue.
Pair of St George’s mushrooms
Pair of St George’s mushrooms: they traditionally appear on April 23rd. When I spotted these in early May they looked suitably timeworn such that they might indeed have first emerged a week or so before the end of the previous month.
Swan family, West Park, first view
This year’s West Park swan family when I first noticed them a month ago. Six cygnets, which looked like they had only hatched within the previous day. Guarded by both parents as they fed by the edge of the lake.
Laburnum flowers dangling
Laburnum flowers dangling from a tree on Albert Road. The reddish background colour in two of the pictures is an out of focus copper beech in the next front garden.
Robin on bench, West Park
Bold robin on a park bench near West Park boating lake. The last image is of a different robin on a wooded fence.
Spring flower assortment
Assortment of spring flowers – pictures I’ve just noticed I didn’t get around posting at the time.
The nearest I saw this year to a carpet of bluebells. Seen from a footpath in Baggeridge Country Park, looking across a fence which carried a notice every few yards that it protected private woodland.
There’s also some snake’s head fritillaries, wood anemones, apple blossom and wild garlic flowers.