David

Palomino cup fungi, clustering tightly together. They had forced their way up through the joint between the pavement and a garden wall.

On sunny days, buddleia (aka butterfly bush) flowers are a magnet of lots of insects, not just butterflies.

While they are there, they are often so intent on feeding that they allow a closer approach that normal, as did these red admirals.

Damsons, clustering thickly on a branch, just as they were starting to ripen.

Ladybirds: a couple of pictures of harlequin larvae have sneaked in there, but most are of native species. There are 2-spot, 7-spot and 14-spot.

Hare’s foot inkcaps, pale, growing among the leaf litter in the wooded area around the Old Nursery.

Another disparate set of pictures of plants seen on my daily exercise, the season now advanced so fruits are on some, flowers on others.