Category: David

Gatekeeper, also known as hedge brown, a butterfly that does indeed seem to have a strong preference for the edges of open spaces.

Well-grown moorhen chick on the canal at Castlecroft, with patches of white in the feathers of its wings and tail.

Puffball fungi growing lined up and squashed against each other.

CORRECTION: identified by Lukas Large as scaly earthballs.

Buddleia living up to its name as the butterfly bush, as a red admiral butterfly worked systematically from flower to flower.

Young magpie perched on a high fence, on the lookout for any opportunity.

River Severn looking upstream and downstream from the middle of the bridge at Ironbridge – nowadays a tranquil scene.