David

Mass of young cross spiders huddling together in a web. The spiderlets had disappeared by the next morning, together with almost all evidence of the web.

Colour matching between a bee’s livery and the flowers of a buddleia growing wild near Compton Lock.

Unidentified insect resting on the leaf of a hawthorn bush.

Flower of a canalside reed. A single thread of spider silk is connecting the stem to the nearest leaf.

Frog which came under cover, apparently to shelter, during a recent heavy shower.

Heron taking care of its feathers.

The bird was on the deserted playing fields of Smestow School, as seen from the canal towpath.