These haws looked like they were already completely ripe – pictured a week ago.
Categories
Categories
Showy spiders webs
Categories
Insects feeding on ragwort flowers
Categories
Chapel Ash dawn
Categories
Young coots, Birmingham canal
There are two young coots here, swimming and eating a few yards from each other.
They are the same birds feature in the post of August 19th
when they must have been very recently hatched.
Categories
Family of swans, Birmingham canal
Categories
Duck and ducklings, Birmingham canal
Categories
Heather in flower on Cannock Chase
Categories
Plums ripening
Categories
Bagot goats at Shugborough
One of the historic breeds farm animals at Shugborough Park. If these are indeed Bagot goats, they are descended from the semi-wild herd of Blithfield Hall, on the opposite side of Cannock Chase, and be of a critically endangered rare breed.
The billy is relaxing above, and the kid, below, is eating with a jackdaw seeming to mimic its actions.