Category: David

Peacock butterfly resting on slate chippings as it spreads its wings to warm in the midday sun.

Spike of tiny flowers on a laurel bush.

Castle Walk on the edge of Bridgnorth’s High Town gives pleasant views over the Severn valley. Its also a good spot to look at on trees and shrubs growing slightly further down the slope, to see their leaves, flowers or fruit conveniently near eye level.

One of a pair of coots with very young chicks on the Birmingham Canal. Three chicks, and one of the birds sitting on the nest possibly brooding an as yet unhatched egg or eggs.

The distinctive nest recycling rubbish thrown in the canal had been noted only one or two days previously by Agnus Dickie from the Smestow Valley birders.

Patch of wood anemones flowering in a sunlit spot in Northycote Farm wood. Berry Brook and its marshy banks stopped me getting any closer.

The green of this shield bug wasn’t effective in giving it camouflage against the greens of the leaf it was resting on.

St George’s mushrooms, so called because they appear around this time of year. These were just beginning to emerge on an embankment of the Smestow Valley Railway Walk ten days ago. Their caps hadn’t yet spread out to take on “mushroom shape”.