David

The bright sunlight was bringing out the irridescence of the wings of this tiny hoverfly, and giving its eyes and thorax a metallic glow. It was feeding on a flower on one of the brambles in Barley Field.

Buds of ivy flowers, pictured a month or so back, before the flowers opened.

Taken on the same morning as the recent post, this picture features a gaggle of the Canada geese from West Park taking their first flight of the morning.

The dragonfly made a brief pause from its hunting, and rested on a late-blooming purple loosestrife flower.

A magpie on the search for food in a partly mown cornfield.

Dramatic colouring as the sun rose on the last day of September.

The weather later that day fitted with the old saying, “Red sky at morning …”