David

This small moth was resting on the leg of a plastic garden chair.

Detail above and wider view below are from the Top Island pool in the Bumblehole and Warrens Hall LNR in Dudley.

These are from the small pond by the roadside outside Boscobel House.

Quite a common butterfly where there are lots of trees and shrubs – their original habitat was clearings in woods.

A parasitic plant.

These were growing in the meadow in the Coombes Valley RSPB reserve, near Leek.

The mating ground of these Common blue damselflies was a small pond on the Coombes Valley
RSPB reserve in the Staffordshire moorlands.

The pictures were taken early in July.

Reed leaves above, and a foxglove flower below.