Wolves Wild

Remains of the flowers were still clinging to the ripening seed heads of some of these coltsfoots.

Recently-arrived swallows at Northycote Farm.

They were resting on the telegraph wires which cross the farmyard, and occasionally heading off to hunt insects.

Flowers beginning to open on an ash tree. There are leaf buds on the ends of the twigs.

Jackdaw on a thorough search for food on the ground under the bird feeders at Northycote Farm.

It had its eye on me as it looked for things to eat.

Spike of horse chestnut flowers just about to open.

Horsetails, evolutionarily early non-flowering plants. I could never work out whether it was this or the later phase which is meant to resemble a horse’s tail

Two young lambs at Northycote Farm earlier this month.

Tortoiseshell butterfly getting nectar from a flower on one of the blackthorn bushes on the edge of Barley Field.

Some of the cherry blossoms from East Park.

From trees around the bandstand.

Wild arum (“Lords and Ladies”) flower which has just opened, and another about to open.