The weather at the moment isn’t encouraging lots of walks and bike rides in the fresh air. So here is another set of pictures that I didn’t get round to posting when they were taken.
This blue-bodied darter dragonfly set up a territory at the edge of the water of the Compton Park pool in June 2014.
Tiny white bracket fungi growing from the underside of a twig.
Highest twig of a ribes bush, with leaf buds about to open in the middle of January when the cold snap added a sprinkling of delicate frost crystals.
One of the West Park resident swan families, having just spotted a source of bread, heading in a line to get their share.
Earthstars are among my favourite fungi, with their bizarre shapes. These fruiting bodies are all from the most common species, collared earth star. Indeed, it is likely that despite the variation in their shapes, they are all the visible extensions of one single underground fungal growth.
Heron on West Park’s boating lake island during the recent cold snap, holding its head as close as possible to its body to keep warm.
