Thanks very much to the couple of people who have responded to my request.
Miscellaneous points – while in Worcestershire saw a low white plant in flower growing in local grass-verges which I didn’t recognise. Seems to be ‘Star of Bethlehem’, which I don’t remember seeing in eastern England. On the seaward side of the Humber bank locally ‘hoary cress’ coming into flower, also may be seen on the river-side of banks of River Hull. (Above image = dog rose colonising a hawthorn bush, come into flower in May and produce large seed-pots (berries) in autumn).
Have neglected to update my ‘tales from the waterside’, that being a wetland area of half an acre between Sluice Road and the Humber bank resulting from clay-diggings of a century ago for a small local brick-yard and two-thirds reed-bed remainder open water. One morning last week saw a pair of grey-lag geese with a batch of young (although they looked similar to mallard ducklings). Unfortunately no sign of them since. Also two broods of mallard ducklings, but only one in one and three in another. Is there a voracious predator? Saw recently in the distance a long black cat-like animal with no accompanying person.
A few weeks ago as the pairings of ducks, geese, swans and coots were nest-building seemed to be an almost constant round of neighbourhood disputes. One titanic tussle between a goose and a swan ended with the swan retreating!
Church studies day on Friday for the Friends of Beverley Minster went reasonably well, positive feed-back on the day.