David

These are the more showy flowers on a courgette plant, so I assume the male ones. If so, they won’t produce any fruit themselves, but are sometimes eaten as flowers.

Young heron standing on the canal footpath, taking off when it noticed I was about to pass too close by it.

Buddleia, known as the butterfly bush from the numbers attracted to its flowers. Here one living up to its name. Painted lady, red admiral and peacock butterflies all feeding at the same time

Bright red bodies, long, long antennae. Soldier beetles, feeding on the pollen of hemlock flowers.

Teazle flowers, rings of purple under the hooked spines, attracting a variety of insects to feed on them and spread their pollen.

Young magpie, West Park. Its plumage looking rather scruffy, especially its head feathers. Possibly disarranged by the recent heavy rain.