Category: David

These pictures show the catkins, and also the complexity in the colouration of the leaves.

This may be the 14-spot ladybird, Calvia quattuordecimguttata.

Whatever its species, it is not one I remember ever noticing before.

This spider’s web was catching pollen from the hawthorns as well as other detritus.

This tiny fly was resting on the edge of a buttercup flower.

The raised areas on this leaf are galls, caused by the depredations of some tiny insect.

A butterfly which, like many species, likes basking on the ground to catch the sun. Small coppers are usually flighty, but this one let me get close enough for a portrait.

This one may be a male: males defend small territories. Notice the chunk missing from the right wing.

Probably the marsh yellow-cress.

Flowers of different conifers.

This bold squirrel was almost demanding peanuts.

Cow parsley with the flowers almost completely out (above) and just about to open (below).