A sign that spring is giving way to summer: damselflies and dragonflies appearing over the Compton Park pool.
This is a male broad bodied chaser dragonfly which was there yesterday. Once the sun comes out, it spends a lot of its time resting on vegetation, on the look out for passing females and for incursions into its territory from rival males.
Coot chick, already put on quite a bit of weight since it came from its egg. It still had traces of the orange feathers on its crown, and it was still bothering its parent for food rather than feeding itself.
Chicken of the woods fungus growing on the trunk of a tree which has fallen over the water from one of the West Park lake islands.
Purple flowers on a tree (a calpurnia perhaps) growing outside the West Park Conservatory.
Daisies seemed to be carpeting all the lawn areas of West Park in the middle of this month. This lone gosling was eating either the short grass or other things it found in the grass. It was surrounded by the daisies, and closely guarded by both parent birds.
Pale pink and dark blue flowers, not one of the conventional colour pairings, and works all the better for that. Flowers on a ceanothus bush with a clematis climbing over it, in a front garden I pass on the way to the shops.