Marsh cinquefoil flowers, some not yet completely open. The plants were growing at the edge of a marshy area in Baggeridge Country Park. The pictures were taken in mid-June, but I only just noticed I hadn’t got round to posting them.
Five (out of an original six) of the cygnets on the West Park lake are now well grown. They have a disconcerting habit of swimming, often quite enthusiastically, towards anyone standing on the shore of the lake. Presumably they have learned that bread is quite likely.
They might be better being more cautious, but it does mean it is easier to get head and shoulders portraits of them.
Comma butterflies resting or feeding on thistle flowers. Thistles are a favourite food plant of the adults of this species.
Rabbit resting in the sun in Sutton Park, with gorse bushes nearby in case a retreat is needed.
A view looking across Keepers Pool in Sutton Park earlier this summer.
Spurge plant growing by the side of a road passing through woodland, its seeds just beginning to ripen. As often with the wild relatives of garden plant species, it is much less showy than the cultivar.