Spring flowers – these one one of the crab apple trees growing at the back of Compton Lock.
the other side of the fence
More goats from the rare breeds collection at Mary Arden’s Farm, Wilmcote, including one busily eating the fodder put out on the other side of the fence in the next pen.
Tulips, New Place, Stratford
New Place, with its Knot Garden and Great Garden, has the most elaborate planting of the various Shakespeare Birthplace Trust properties in and around Stratford on Avon. Here a selection of the tulips flowering there last month.
Marsh marigold flower, fly emerging
Flowers in a large clump of marsh marigolds by the Compton Park pool. As I took the pictures, a fly was emerging from deep in one of the flowers.
Red, gold and green: tulip
Tulip flower, petals drooping as they showed the signs of age. Flower and background giving a composition almost entirely using the Pan-African colours of red, gold and green. I noticed the flower in the Castle Grounds, Bridgnorth.
Coot chick on a submerged branch
Coot chick, previously just about visible in a nest of tangled twigs, here having swum a couple of feet across the River Avon to take refuge on a submerged and fallen branch poking out of the water. In the short time I was taking these pictures, I didn’t see any sign of a parent bird.