David

A willow beauty moth which landed on a window, staying for some hours.

Hedge woundwort growing by the edge of the canal, just beginning to flower.

A mass of stonecrop flowers, possibly tasteless stonecrop, growing all along the edge of a car park.

Whirlygig beetles zooming over the surface of a pool in Baggeridge Country park, sending out circles of ripples which mark their presence.

Whenever I visit Baggeridge Country Park, I can’t resist taking pictures of whichever of the Bagot goats are visible on Toposcope Hill – they’re kept there to control the scrub.

This was mid-morning, but already sweltering. Only one goat in sight, stretched out in the sun.

A big mature monkey puzzle tree, in a front garden on Oxbarn Avenue. I think these are male flowers, a mass of spiky stamens. Coming to the end of having done their task for the year, they were all now turning brown.