Sleeping duck trios, West Park

Sleeping duck trio, West Park

Two trios of mallards, asleep not far from West Park’s boating lake recenty. The groups were on different sides of the path around the lake, with only ten or so yards separating them.

Lupins, New Place garden

Lupins, New Place garden

Some of the lupins in flower in the gardens of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust property, New Place, in Stratford on Avon.

Lupins, New Place garden

Swans and cygnets, West Park

Cygnets, West Park

Resident swans on West Park lake have had breeding successes for several years in a row. Here a pair of protective adults with their brood of six cygnets which were only a day or two old when these pictures were taken the middle of last month.