Category: David

Seen earlier today, the first swallow of the year high on a tree in the middle of Doxey Marshes, looking from a distance like it might be something even more interesting.

Dog’s mercury is one of the plants of woodland floors which grows and flowers before the trees grow their leaves and put the ground below into permanent shade.

Comma and a peacock butterfly both enthusiastically making a meal of what to human eyes is very unsavoury eating.

Delicate umbellifer, perhaps cow parsley, just as the flowers were beginning to open.

Blistered cups, small cup-shaped fungi with a warty-looking outer surface. Compare the related species palomino cups and cellar cups.

Patch of soft mud near a badger sett. For some reason only the front of the animalsfeet marked the ground where they passed, leaving a series of clawprints.