Violets flowering, with stickweed encroaching, right by Aldersley Junction. They were in the remains of a flower bed right by the canal junction – was there once a toll house on the site? So they might be a domesticated variety.
Taking it easy
A first experiment in slow motion filming. Mallard drakes and a first winter black-headed gull.
Hyacinth about to flower, Sensory Garden, Northycote Farm
Hyacinth just about to flower. This one was in the Sensory Garden at Northycote Farm.
Swans preening, Perton Pool
Swan preening on the pool at Perton, another being more through near the stream inlet to the pool.
Dozing tufties, boating lake
A pair of tufted ducks, floating on West Park boating lake, dozing but keeping an eye out for any problems.
Daff beginning to open
On the stem at the edge of the clump, this daff was just beginning to open during a brief sunny spell on a morning where one shower followed another.