Category: David

Poppies growing densely at the edge of a field of oilseed rape by the traffic lights at Himley.

For the past couple of years, there were hardly any poppies flowering in the field. Three years ago it was different.

Pair of tiny ladybirds, possibly two-spot ladybirds, near the edge of a nettle leaf. I’m guessing that their activity indicates that one of them is male.

Southern marsh orchids growing in Baggeridge Country Park earlier this month.

The area where they were growing had seemed to be dry last year, but the ground was indeed soggy this time around.

Sequence of a family of coots on a stretch of the 21 locks.

A coot chick a few days old swimming on the water demands food, and is given a little bread by a parent bird, which holds on to most of the bread and swims towards the nest.

The nest is in a bed of reeds. There is another adult there, perhaps brooding unhatched eggs.

When the swimming adult reaches the reeds, more chicks appear, and are given a share of the bread.

Bumble bee gripping onto one of the multi-coloured flowers of a cultivated variety of broom growing in West Park.

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Barley (with “beards”) and wheat, still green and unripe.