Author: David

This was one one of the bushes in Bantock Park.

These flowers were all on the same small patch of flag iris during the hot spell at the end of May.

A pair of the greylag geese were sitting ignoring everyone walking by; one actually on a path, the other on the bordering short grass.

The bird on the grass was not eating the daisies which surrounded it, but the larger fallen petals of another flower, probably rhododendron.

I like the variations in the red tones in the leaves of these bushes – this one is in West Park.

A snail obligingly crawled down the outside of a window on a rainy day, giving me a chance to get a series of pictures of it as seen from below.

A surprisingly common wayside flower.

The greater celandines I have managed to spot this year all seem to be growing in places which discourage a close approach. These pictures are of plants growing in a clump on a patch of sloping ground with brambles.

I don’t know what kind of insect this was. Whenever I’ve seen them in the past, it has been near farmland – specifically, close to fields where rape is flowering.

This time, there were a lot of them in the Smestow Valley LNR. This one stayed still long enough for me to grab its picture.

These small plants were all growing from the mortar in the same brick wall.

This single flower was growing some way down a steep slope on the Cotwall End LNR. If it was descended from a garden flower, it must have travelled some considerable distance.

Growing by a hedge a few days ago.

The plant was among the vegetation growing overhanging the Staffs & Worcs canal.