The male great crested grebe which featured in the two posts above, now safely in the quiet water at the end of the fishing lake. It was putting on a show of unconcern by swimming considerably nearer to the shore, and so nearer to me and the anglers.
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.
