David

Ripening sloes in the Barley Field hedge: dark, almost black with a blue bloom.

Partly albinistic carrion crow, distinctive with its patches of white feathers, searches for prey among the short grass of the lawn in front of a block of flats on Finchfield Road.

Lords and ladies by the Railway Walk, its berries bright red, ripe or almost so. The berries were beginning to look a little wrinkly, beginning to shrivel after a long dry spell.

magpie stalking in the then recently-cut stubble of the wildflower meadow at Bantock Park, hunting for insects to eat.

Double-striped pug moth (Gymnoscelis rufifasciataon) resting on the inside of a window. It’s not been since, so hopefully it managed to return to the open air.

A sun fly, a common type of hoverfly, struggling to get deep into a bindweed flower to get at that delicious nectar.