Adult swans with their cygnets, finding stuff to eat in a canal lock.
Small moth on dock flowers
Small moth resting and possibly feeding on dock flowers last month.
Half-grown moorhen chick, Wildside Centre
Half-grown moorhen chick swimming in the canal by the Wildside Centre. I couldn’t see any sign of parent birds or other chicks, likely hiding in the bankside vegetation nearby.
Dyer’s woad flowering
Small patch of dyer’s woad flowering on Mary Arden’s Farm. Before the invention of synthetic dyes, this was one of the plants widely cultivated for colouring cloth (not to mention the skins of ancient Britons).
Head-bobbing swans
Large group of swans on the Avon at Stratford, demanding to be fed. They were bobbing and raising their heads at the same time as they watched for the food.
Garden poppies, Shakespearean Gardens
Large poppies in the gardens of the Shakespeare Birthplace and New Place recently.