Category: David

Flowers on a mature araucaria (monkey puzzle) in the centre of Wombourne.

Tortoiseshell butterfly seeming to be trying to get nectar from a daffodil by approaching through the back of the flower.

Lady’s smock growing by a footpath along the Severn at Bridgnorth.

Bees kept going into and coming out of these holes in sandy soil on the bak of the Severn near Bridgnorth, though they proved to camera shy to be pictured by the entrances.

Hawthorn flowers, known as may for the month they traditionally appear. Earlier today I noticed plenty of buds and the first few fully open flowers on hedgerow bushes in sheltered spots in south Shropshire.

Close-up of a flower on an ash tree in a roadside garden in Gospel End, reminding me somewhat of a miniature ornate lettuce variety high in a tree.