David

Female orange tip butterfly, as ever lacking any orange colour. It had landed and was feeding on an alkanet flower.

Heron which must have been hiding in the vegetation which is gradually choking Compton Park Pool. I didn’t notice it as I began to cross the footbridge, but it evidently noticed me and decided I was getting too close for comfort, so here it is taking off to move away. Possibly the same young bird which has been haunting the canal between Compton and Castlecroft recently.

Lone snake’s head fritillary with a red flower, near the caff at Baggeridge Country Park. Some of the white-flowered variety were by Bags Pool.

2019 greylag goose goslings, probably only a couple of days hatched, eating grass by the side of the lake at West Park.They were still small enough to squeeze through the fence. The parent birds were too big, but still kept very close and vigilant.

Female orange tip butterfly resting on an ivy leaf – only the males have the orange tips to their wing tops.

This female and a male had been fluttering around each other for perhaps half a minute. The female landed on this ivy leaf right by me, so I expected the male to follow. Instead, it flew off in the opposite direction. The female stayed on the leaf, contorting its body, perhaps wafting pheromones.

Bold jackdaw sneaking a quick drink of water from the poultry drinking trough, Mary Arden’s Farm.