Category: David

Moths taking daytime refuge on the underside of leaves.

Along the Smestow valley there are old quarries which were once used to get sandstone to use (as sand) in iron-making. This is the Dell at the back of Wightwick Mill Lock.

Flowers from the beds around the lawn in the garden at Wightwick Manor, complete with a hoverfly (main picture).

These pictures were taken during the Heritage Open Day last month.

From a distance it looked like this tree in the Worfe valley was thriving. But the foliage is from climbing ivy.

Unidentified insect with long curving antennae on a flag iris leaf by a pool. The pictures were taken in early September.

Selection of pictures of waterlilies flowering over the summer.

The red (darker pink?) and white flowers were on the small pool at Bantock Park, where they could just be glimpsed through the taller vegetation at the water’s edge.

The paler pink ones were on a one-time mill pond by the River Stour on the edge of the village of Clifford Chambers, a couple of miles from Stratford upon Avon.