Slug

Slug

The recent damp weather has encouraged all the slugs and snails to come out.

Slug

Nightshade

Nightshade

A nightshade plant with the unripe fruit (above) and the flowers (below) showing at the same time.

Nightshade

Frog

Frog

The pale yellow skin of this frog made its presence fairly obvious – an effect heightened by the white feather sticking to it as a tail.

Hazelnuts

Hazelnuts

The middle of July, and already these hazelnuts are beginning to ripen.

Thistle flowers

Thistle

This bumblebee gathering nectar from a thistle flower.

Thistle

A smaller insect can just be made out on this flower.

Thistle

Pond skater

Pond skater

These insects can be found walking along on the surface of ponds.