David

Rowan (mountain ash) berries beginning to ripen on a tree on the edge of the Barley Field.

I thought this view centring on the speculum of a mallard drake coming out of eclipse plumage formed a pleasant abstract composition.

The whole duck in view as it stood by the edge of the West Park boating lake.

Dead oak tree, seen across a cornfield from a footpath leaving the Solihull village of Balsall Common, and from closer to.

Ladybird wandering round on the seeds of an umbellifer, which were drying out as they ripened.

One of the reeds on the margin of the Pool Hall fishing lake last month, when it was flowering.

Almost hidden by nettles at the bottom of a sandy bank, a mushroom is just visible. Its stem indicated it was a sandy stiltball, which doesn’t usually have this pale upper surface.