David

On Compton Park pond, large red damselflies. The few which have been visible have all been male. When it’s sunny, and not too breezy, they will fly around over the water. Then they will rest for a while on some nearby flat surface, often a horizontal section of bulrush leaf, hoping to attract a female.

In the foreground, hawkbits flowering. These orange ones are possibly a garden variety, but if so theyre’s lots, like these, growing wild.

Out of focus in the background, it’s possible to make out the colours of other flowers. Yellow, of greater celandines; blue of forget-me-nots; and, almost hidden by leaves, self-heal showing purple.

Bumble bee which seemed to be very thoroughly investigating a small patch of bare earth on the path around the perimeter of the Barley Field.

One of the wildflowers of the Barley Field, as of most other wildflower meadows, yellow rattle. The “yellow” in the name is obvious from these pictures. “Rattle” comes later. When the seeds mature, they are loosely-enclosed in a seed case, and do indeed rattle around when the plant is shaken.

A wagtail parent flying in to feed its fledged chick.

Teazles growing in the wetland area by the Compton Park pond. The area of woodland in the background makes the pictures compositions in shades of green.