Category: David

Unidentified beetle or similar insect on a wall, its black colour overlaid with a shifting iridescent blue.

The first I’v seen of this year’s crop of young birds on the West Park lake – a mallard with her two ducklings. The young birds looked so small and fluffy I thought they were less than a day old. But they looked no different twenty-four hours later (pictures soon).

Male blackbird, alert, on the lookout from the branch of a bush by the side of the Severn at Bridgnorth.

Two mallard drakes, part of the West Park duck population, asleep or resting balancing on the line of rope separating the boating area from the rest of the lake. It seems a very strange place to choose, but it gets well used.

I’m not sure why this carrion crow had its head to one side at the moment I took the picture. It must have been a brief movement as the bird walked to the edge of West Park lake for a drink of water.

Female damsel fly resting on the handrail of the Compton Park pool. This one was active in the early July of 2014.