Category: David

Hawthorns – these were in and on the edge of the Barley Field – with a profusion of flowers at the end of May. Perhaps it’s because I’ve not been getting out so much recently, but the hawthorn seemed particularly abundant this year.

The then still young West Park cygnets, contorting their necks preening as they stood on the edge of the footpath by the boating lake early one morning. Both parents were swimming right by, watching their chicks.

The young ones were less than two days old, and perhaps on their first visit to the mainland.

Male common blue damselflies resting on bullrush leaves close to the decking of the Compton Park pond, taking a pause from their flights over the water in search of females.

The same young heron featured in yesterday’s post. It was still standing in the same spot, on the lookout for fish, when I had moved around to picture it from a different angle.

“Clocks” of dandelion seeds, in close-up.

Young heron, a regular in West Park, standing on the shore of the lake early one morning. It was looking for fish and occasionally pausing to preen. In the background there were rhododendrons flowering.