David

Cockchafer – a beetle big enough to draw attention to itself – feeding on a yellow rose. The vicious-looking rear end is not a weapon. It’s used by the females for placing their eggs in the ground.

Little egret stepping out on the marshes at Warbleswick.

Common blue damselflies on Compton Park pool. Thirty or more present, flying over the shrinking areas of open water. Most were unattached males, but several pairs engaging in mating and ovipositing.

Duckling pair with the mother, on the canal just upstream from Wightwick Mill Lock.

Cinnabar moth landing, then at rest on a footpath. A stone’s throw from the sea at Southwold.

Pied wagtail by the Southwold seashore. The bird had taken its territory on the end of a canalised stream, so small as to be almost dried up. It seemed to be endlessly searching the algae of the stream bed and the neighbouring concrete sea wall for invertebrate prey.