David

Masses of pollen-rich flowers were growing on roadside lime trees recently.

Gloucester old spot piglets from two different litters, pictured in adjacent pens on Northycote Farm. The one on grass was running up to me, seeming to be expecting food. Its litter is a few weeks older than the other.

The younger one was trying to make a wallow in the powdery-dry soil – both piglets had found enough moisture to give themselves muddy snouts.

Earlier pictures featuring both litters here.

Growing ducklings and the mallard mother on the nest on flattened reeds by the canal near Compton.

Gecko out hunting night-insects on a wall in the south of France.

Green and red colours of a female beautiful demoiselle damselfly resting on the remains of a flower by the river Worfe.

The best picture I managed to get of a graceful common tern as it circled the fishing lake at Pool Hall by the Staffs & Worcs canal.