Meadow salsify seed head, looking like a dandelion clock which has expanded into a complete sphere.
The informal name, jack go to bed at noon, comes from the habit of the flower which opens in the morning, and closes around midday.
Small skipper butterfly spreading its wings on the ground of the Barley Field as it gets warm in the morning sun.
It’s just possible it is actually an Essex skipper. Some have been seen in the vicinity of small skippers on this part of the Barley Field, and these pictures are not detailed enough to distinguish the two species.
Orchids, species unidentified, growing in long grass in clearings by the footpath leading up to Whitcliffe Common.
Dragonfly of the same species as in the previous post, but this time a southern hawker male, with blue patches on the body.
This one was on the hedge by the track on Northycote Farm, perhaps a hundred yards away from Berry Brook.
Southern hawker dragonfly resting in the morning sunlight on the leaves of a tree at the edge of one of the clearings of the Breadwalk above the River Teme at Ludlow.
This is a female: the males have blue patches. The clearing seemed to be its territory.
Tempting looking wild strawberry ripening, growing on the grassy bank by the side of a road.