Wildlife from Wolverhampton and nearby
Heron at Bag’s Pool, Baggeridge Country Park. On two separate occasions as I went past the pool, the bird was standing on the wooden platform in the middle of the water. Eech time, its response to noticing me watching it was to retreat to the shelter of the bulrush bed opposite.
Mangalitza sow given her own sty separate from the other adult pigs on Mary Arden’s Farm, Wilmcote. I couldn’t see any staff around to ask why, but perhaps a litter on the way.
Collared dove sitting on a fence. For once the bird didn’t fly off as I cme down the nearby footpath.
Lambs – at least two different species are represented – on Mary Arden’s Farm. A few sheep have sneaked in as well.
Lesser tortoiseshell butterfly caterpillars spotted by the railway station at Wilmcote. One on the leaf of a hazel growing by the ramp leading to the station. The other was crawling along one of the benches on the opposite platform.
Pictured just after Easter, a profusion of tulips in the gardens of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust properties in Stratford on Avon: the birthplace itself, as well as New Place and Hall’s Croft.
Each of these gardens was planted with a different mix of tulips and other flowers, with varying carefully chosen combinations of colours and of flower types.