Category: David

Thistle flowers, buds just on the point of opening, clustered thickly at the top of the plant.

Pigeon walking through, and drinking from, the water of a large puddle on one of the paths in West Park.

Greater knapweed growing in the woldflower area of Bantock Park recently.

Thistle flower bud, very spiky.

Ladybird, possibly a harlequin, on a nettle hunting the aphids which are also on the plant.

After yesterday’s shorn lambs, some which still had their wool and could have auditioned for the nursery rhyme. All this year’s at Northycote Farm are black sheep.

This one seemed determined to test out the old saying about the grass on the other side of the fence.