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Two ringlet butterflies (Aphantopus hyperantus), and one speckled wood (Pararge aegeria)

Golden rod flowers seen looking straight down at the tip of the flowers.

Comma butterfly, with the characteristic scalloped edges to its wings, feeding on thistle flowers.

The very start of this month, and acorns had filled out to their full size and shape, but were still as green as ever.

Earlier this month, as fewer and fewer flowers were left on the buddleia bushes. A red admiral, hungrily feedin on the nectar in the flowers which were left.

Water mint flowering, Compton Park pond. There’s quite a lot of water mint growing in the shallow water of the pond, but it’s hard to spot among the dense taller vegetation of reeds and rushes.