Lady’s smock – also sometimes called the cuckoo flower because it supposedly blooms at the same time the cuckoo arrives from migration. These days finding the flower is much more likely than hearing the bird calling.
Pasqueflowers fading after Easter
Pasqueflowers are so called because they supposedly flower at Easter. I noticed these in a front garden over the Mayday Bank Holiday weekend. They were definitely beginning to fade, but I liked their colours and textures.
Sunbathing goats, Mary Arden’s Farm
Goats, including a nanny with young kid in a pen within the pen, stretching out in morning sunshine on Mary Arden’s Farm, Wilmcote. Possibly Arapawa goats.
Yellow archangel flowering, Perton
Yellow archangel, yellow flowers on a plant which looks rather like a nettle. These were growing by a path in a patch of woodland by the Penk, between the two pools at Perton.
Moorhen and young chicks, Compton Park pool
One of a pair of moorhens with some of the six chicks, still very young, out on the water of the pool at Compton Park. This outing was at the end of last month.
Jack by the hedge, flowers beginning to open
Jack by the hedge, otherwise known as garlic mustard, and nowadays sometimes a target for the wild food foraging fraternity. Often found in hedgerows (where else?) flowering in spring.