Berries ripening on St John’s Wort bushes in Bantock Park. The larger berries are at different stages of ripeness on the same bush (and pictured at the same time). The other picture is of a bush only yards away, evidently a different variety.
In mid-August several common darters had divided the water of Wetland Pool into their territories. many of them seemed to prefer resting or displaying on the wood of the footbridge railings or the planks of the waterside decking when they weren’t flying patrolling their territories.
There are at least four, possibly five, individuals here, all pictured within a few minutes. There were at least as many in the air. As far as I could see, all were male.
A common darter dragonfly rests on a wooden pole which vandals have thrown into the water of Wetland Pool in Compton Park.
Red-eyed fly walking across the half-open flowers of a ragwort.
Tansy flowers in a clump on the top of their long, thin stalks, in late summer when many other plants have finished flowering.
Many of this year’s sloes seem to be developing with disfigured skin. These are an example, as are ones seen earlier on the same set of bushes.
