David

Female mallard and her by now well-grown duckling, which was a singleton wen I first noticed it when recently hatched. Now well grown and beginning to get adult feathers.

Old man’s beard when some of the flowers were beginning to open, and others on the same plant were still buds.

The stumpy tail feathers show this magpie was young, possibly not that long fledged.. It was on the ground of the barley Field, showing no signs of concern even though several dogs were running off the lead mearby.

Marguerite daisy, beginning to droop, with a visiting potato mirid. There’s a clearer view of the insect in the cropped version of the image.

Blurush flowers, on the pool at Compton Park, seen ver several days as they developed.

The last of this year’s goslings to hatch at West Park, a greylag, now getting quite big, still getting the sole attention of its protective parents.

Here it was goose-stepping across one of the paths to feed in a patch of short grass, and swimming near the shore.