David

Coot chick, grown enough to swim off without parental supervision and to dive in search of its own food.

Fly in a buttercup flower, its tongue out to eat the nectar.

Japanese acers in West Park at the end of last month, with seeds just beginning to develop and giving strong colour contrasts with the vivid leaves.

Delicate pink flower of a cranesbill. On the right a flower has gone over and the seed is beginning to ripen in the vaguely beak shaped seed case which gives the plant its name.

Ladybird clinging on to the underside of the seed head of a stalk of grass growing by the side of a canal.

Jack by the hedge stem, with some flowers still remaining and others having begun to develop into seeds. There is a thread showing a small spider is in residence.