Category: David

Moth resting on the wooden handrail of the footbridge over the pool at Compton Park. It is coloured in the same range of greys as the wood, not that that helps for camouflage.

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.