Category: David

Moorhen standing where a build-up of vegetation has made a shallow patch in the pool in Compton Park, stretching its muscles.

Large numbers of flies gathering near the water of the pool at Compton Park. Possibly they were recently emerged as adults.

This year’s West Park cygnets again, here sticking their heads right down in the water of the lake as the mother bird keeps guard nearby.

Male large red damselfly resting near the edge of the decking of the Compton Park pool footbridge. The females are harder to spot, as they are both more cryptically coloured and less likely to be at rest in the open.

Large skipper butterfly feeding on a thistle flower by a path in the Barley Field, as it warms itself in the morning sunshine.

Despite the warmth, there were very few butterflies around that morning. In fact, just one other skipper, just a little too far away and a little to shy to see clearly enough to be sure it was the same species.

Tall top of a wormwood plant, this one growing on the shore of the West Park pool.