Category: David

Much of the wetland area of Compton Park has been stripped off its turf, and recently sown with grass seed. The seed has been a bonanza to several species of birds, including this moorhen which is living on the pool.

These violets were growing hanging over the edge of the Shropshire Union Canal as it passed through a cutting.

Male speckled wood butterflies claim a patch of sunlit territory in a shady area, ideally a woodland clearing, and wait for a female they can show off too.

If another male arrives instead, a contest starts with the two insects flying around each other in a threatening manner, until one (usually the interloper) retreats leaving the other in possession.

Set of horse chestnut flowers, often compared to a candelabra, rising from a branch of the tree.

Tortoiseshell butterfly resting, its wings half folded, on dandelion flower as it warms up in the morning sunlight.

Black sedge growing by the edge of the canal (Meccano Bridge in the background of one picture) with paler pollen. An earlier post shows the same species before the pollen muted the black.