Category: David

Male beautiful demoiselle damselfly with a territory on the canal near the water bridge, taking a pause from patrolling and resting on a nettle leaf overlooking the water.

Flowers from some of the teazles beginning to colonise the area around the Compton Park pool, just beginning to produce pollen and already attracting the attention of a lone bumblebee.

This year’s four West Park cygnets and the parent birds by boating lake island. One of the adult swans has a taste for stretching up from the water to eat leaves from overhanging willows. Here one of the young birds was trying to do the same, but didn’t seem to be quite able to reach.

Flowers on a patch of umbellifers growing by the canal near the Meccano Bridge were an irresistible draw for several hoverflies on a sunny August morning.

Sycamore seeds with the blades which will let them fall gently in an autumn breeze, helicopter fashion, seen in early August when they were beginning to ripen.

Young magpie with scruffy dishevelled feathers prospecting for something to eat among the short grass in West Park.