Category: David

Mass of ripening crab apples on a tree in the front garden of an old black-and-white cottage on the edge of the main village, Berkswell.

The turkey at Northycote Farm, walking around its pen. It might have thought I was a source of extra food.

Long thin figwort growing by a canal. Flowering over, the plant’s seeds are developing as a spider has used the structure as scaffolding for a web.

Tawny grisette mushrooms making their annual appearance growing through grass. Like many mushrooms, they grow in association with trees: this species can be found with a wide variety of deciduous and coniferous ones.

Heather flowering on a patch of heathy ground on Gospel Oak Common.

Ducklings in the canal at Newbridge, still losing their downy plumage earlier this month. Perhaps a second brood.