David

Lime is one of the last trees to produce its flowers every year. When they arrive they have a strong and sweet perfume.

Whirlygig beetles zooming round the surface of a pond, leaving complex patterns of spreading ripples in their wake.

Young bird, probably a goldfinch, high in a hawthorn bush by the canal where it is crossed by Castlecroft Bridge.

That particular bush seems popular as a vantage point for birds. Earlier on the same day as this picture was taken, there had been a whitethroat. A couple of days previously, a yellowhammer in the same spot.

The rather unprepossessing flower of a bistort, which grow in damp places.

Distorted and discoloured sections at the end of twigs on hawthorn bushes. They are caused by an infection, either of a fungus (rust) or an insect which has laid an egg in the plant (gall).

Bullrushes on the Compton Park pool. The lower, green-yellow portion of the head is still flowering (the yellow is the pollen). On the upper part the flower has already gone over; the seeds will now begin the long process of getting ready for spreading by the wind early next year.