David

Just as I began taking this series of pictures, the young robin featured noticed that another robin was infringing its territory, just out of shot further in the hawthorn bush. It turned to sing a song challenging the interloper. As I took my hand off the camera controls, it flew at then other, chasing it away.

Morning sun casting a pattern of light and shade on a reed leaf covered with drops of water from overnight rain, and on a delicate-looking spider’s web.

Two different species of bracket fungi on a tree stump by the Railway Walk – a weeping polypore and a horse’s hoof fungus

Red leaves in front of green leaves. Virginia creeper and ivy covering the wall of the former lock keeper’s cottage at Wightwick Lock.

Red admiral butterflies, a species where the adult stage may still possibly be seen at this time of year. They come out to feed on warm, sunny days, heading for ivy which is at the height of its flowering season.

Bright red ripening crabapples on a tree at the back of Compton Lock. They look very tempting, but appearances are sometimes deceiving.