Some recent pictures of bees visiting flowers. The portrait-format pictures were taken in the Sensory Garden at Northycote Farm; the others peeping into front gardens in Ludlow.
Drake with green plumage – some kind of mallard cross. Hangs out with the mallards which congregate near the Horseshoe Weir on the River Teme at Ludlow.
St John’s wort: the cultivated plant (sometimes grown as a garden hedge) is bushier and with larger flowers. These flowers were on one of the wild plants growing on the lower slopes of Toposcope Hill, Baggeridge Country Park.
Flower and buds of a thistle growing on the parapet of Dinham Bridge over the River Teme at Ludlow. The river can be seen, out of focus, in the background.