David

More of the vegetation on the margin of the new pool in the Smestow Valley, this time a patch of the reeds.

Lime hawk moth caterpillar, large and green, walking across a pavement surprisingly quickly.

It had dropped out of a lime tree just in front of me.

The structure sticking up or out was at the rear end, tail-like. The caterpillars of other hawk-moth species have similar structures.

Single iridescent feather, probably from a magpie, which was lying in the middle of the towpath.

Elderberries at different stages of ripening, even though they were growing on the same bush and pictured at the same time.

They are one of the fruits which which looks likely to produce a good crop this year.

Kniphofia, or more familiarly red hot poker, flower growing in a bed at the back of the West Park Tea Rooms.

Something seemed to have caught the attention of this moorhen and young chick as they stood on a flattened bed of reeds.