David

A very rural-looking view of Merry Hill Brook as it heads out through fields into the Staffordshire countryside.

Lupins, possibly descended from garden escapes, growing on the canalside edge of Fowler’s Park.

Bee almost disappearing down the flower of one of the flag irises at Fowler’s Park, eager to get at the nectar.

A stem of wild garlic at the stage where most of the petals had dropped off the flowers and the seeds were just beginning to ripen.

Comma butterfly resting on a dry canal towpath, and drinking from a very slightly damper patch of the soil.

The deeply indented trailing edge of the wings is a more distinctive mark of the species than the vaguely comma shaped patch which is confined to the underwing.

Bright yellow broom flowers crowding together on a bush at the edge of Fowler’s Park recently.