David

Two herons standing on the same fallen willow on one of the West Park islands, preening. They may have only been yards apart, and with nothing to block their views of the other. But, as seems to happen often with herons, they were carefully looking in directions where they could ignorge one another.

Ox-eye daisies growing tall. These were among the wetland vegetation by the Compton Park pond.

Chafer, possibly a common chafer or a Welsh chafer, resting on a nettle leaf.

I don’t know which of the many types of umbellifer this was. Bit the dark purple of the stem and the protective leaves surrounding the flowers, just about to open, was distinctive.

Some of this year’s cygnets on West Park lake early one morning, together with one of the parent birds.

A vivid dash of red makes the flowers of this cultivated broom more striking than those of the wild variety.