Category: David

A swan’s long and flexible neck makes preening look easy as it floats gently downstream.

Smooth newt (also known as common newt) – cameraphone pictures taken in low light by Madelaine Loving on the local allotments.

It’s been several years since I last saw a newt, so it is good to know there are still some living nearby.

This one scampered off back into hiding once it had submitted to its mugshot being taken.

The sloes are ripening earlier than usual this year. These are from the same set of bushes shown at earlier this year here and here.

The fingerpost at Autherley Junction is a popular lookout point for birds, here a lesser black backed gull – on another occasion, a heron.

The flowers of this umbellifer seemed to be a big draw for flies one morning – the dozen or so there include at least four different species.

Individual oats visible in their drying protective coverings as they ripen.