Category: David

A pair of common blue damselflies (the female is actually green) resting on a reedmace leaf as they mate. Another male was flying by at the time.

Mould growing on a knot in the wood of a footbridge. It is growing in rings which follow those of the underlying knot.

Bee paying an early morning visit to a meadow cranesbill in someone’s front garden near Penn Common last weekend.

One of the swans on the lake at West Park. It seems to get annoyed with the other swans rather frequently without any visible provocation, and to adopt a threat posture or fly at them. Less often, geese get a sililar treatment.

Water boatmen skimming the surface of the Compton Park pond recently.

I’m not sure whether the mat of very small spheres in two of the pictures are insect eggs, or very small air bubbles clinging together.

Sedge growing along the Railway Walk, the weight of the flowers bowing the stem down.