Category: David

Common red soldier beetles, also called the bloodsuckers (actually they are purely vegetarian) seem to have been particularly noticeable this year.

Quite often it’s because they have been mating.

Crab apples ripening on one of the trees growing by the canal at Compton Rough

Yellowhammer on the highest twig of the hawthorn bush by the canal next to Castlecroft Bridge.

It (probably he) was sending a message to a rival yellowhammer which was also singing nearby.

Tiny caterpillar hurrying along on the upper surface of a nettle leaf.

Self-heal, further along than in the previous post. The seeds are now beginning to develop from the fertilized flowers.

Self-heal, common summer meadow flowers, often easily overlooked because they are dwarfed by the surrounding grasses.