Author: David

A kestrel perching as it scans a field for prey.

This rusty-coloured lighen was growing on the trunk of an apple tree. The greenish blobs on it are moss.

As the weather warms up, more insects become visible.

Yet another sign of spring at last.

This fungus looks for all the world like a tuft of black hair.

It seems to be a fungus which goes under the the proper name of Phycomyces nitens, and grows on dung.

A starling hanging from a bird feeder, and showing a little of the multi-coloured splendour that the normally black portions of its plumage can take on in the right light.