Category: David

Peacock butterfly which kept changing position to get at the nectar as it fed on a dandelion.

The darker colour of the leaves at the top of the plant is an indication that they have only recently grown, or are still growing.

View of a comma butterfly at the start of the month. It was resting on a leaf, warming itself in the morning sun.

Dandelion seed head before any of the seeds had begun to blow away.

Wetland Lake is the pool, still less than two years old, formed by allowing the Graiseley Brook to emerge briefly from its underground culvert as it crosses the former school playing fields in Compton Park, now the area by the housing development.

Water mint is successfully established growing round much of the margin of the pool: here seen looking down from the wooden footbridge.

Horse chestnut flowers arranged on a spike rising from a twig, resembling an elaborate candelabra. This was on one of the trees in Bantock Park.