Category: David

Tiny elegant snail in the middle of a leaf of a young oak tree.

Privet flowers, discreet but with a powerful odour, were at their height about a month ago.

Half-grown wood pigeon which kept pestering one its parents to be fed, first with plaintive cries while perching on a bird bath, then jostling on a chimney.

Liverworts and other plants growing on the brickwork of Wightwick Lock on the Staffs & Worcs Canal.

Heron prowling on the hunt for prey in the shallow water of the River Avon in the centre of Stratford on Avon. It seemed untroubled by the attention it was drawing from predestrians only a few yards away as it concentrated on its task.

Great willowherb flowers are those of the rosebay willowherb. It has a more marked preference for damp spaces, and isn’t usually found growing in massed crowds like the rosebay.