Category: David

Several ladybirds were gathered in a series of small groups on the moss on the top of a garden wall or on the brickwork below. Most of the groups seemed to include both adults and larvae.

Sleek jackdaw on a post at Northycote Farm, keeping a wary eye that I’m not trying to sneak up behind it.

Old one-time mill wheel in a small wood on the River Worfe, now gently rusting. It’s in what must always have been an isolated spot, now reachable only by a footpath between Worfield and Rindleford.

The pictures with few leaves on the trees were taken in April, the others on a re-visit in September.

Some field guides say that earth star fungi can be found from the summer onwards, but it’s when the weather starts getting cooler that I start seeing any.

This was my first since last winter, half-hidden in the undergrowth of a canalside hedge.

In the distance, the taller buildings of Birmingham University rise above the trees. The foreground is the Worcester and Birmingham Canal on an aqueduct crossing a busy main road.

Gaudy red and purple of a fuchsia flower on a bush in someone’s front garden. They’ve been flowering for months, and still flowering now.