Guardian Camera Club members capture new life photos

Each week, we ask our budding amateur photographers to take pictures based on a theme, and this week it was new life.

The Camera Club is a supportive and friendly group of amateur and professional photographers, and as well as submitting photos taken recently, members also take part in regular themed challenges.

You can join 893 others on Facebook at facebook.com/groups/guardiancameraclub/.

A mother duck with her brood on the Weaver at Newbridge Locks (Image: Lisa Lacking)

Young House Martins (Image: Terry Gregory)

Newly emerged cabbage butterfly in Hartford (Image: Darren Bown)

A mother duck with her beautiful little duckling on the Weaver, Winsford (Image: Lisa Lacking)

Moorhen chicks, River Weaver (Image: Lynzi Blake)

A mother and her young squirrel on top of their nest at Marbury (Image: Becky Seymour)

All these branches will bear conkers in due course - Verdin Park (Image: Christian Locke)

New rhododendrons bursting into life - Verdin Park (Image: Christian Locke)

Testing out a stick at Higher Whitley (Image: Wendy Mahon)

Ducklings with mum on the Shropshire Union Canal, Church Minshall (Image: Wendy Mahon)

Knutsford (Image: Carly Jo Curbishley)

New born cygnets at Newbridge, Winsford (Image: Lisa Lacking)

Tadpoles (Image: Ann Marie Taylor)

Ducklings (Image: Ann Marie Taylor)

Swan with babies (Image: Wendy Mahon)

Squirrels at Marbury (Image: Becky Seymour)