Category: David

Delicate pink flower of a cranesbill. On the right a flower has gone over and the seed is beginning to ripen in the vaguely beak shaped seed case which gives the plant its name.

Ladybird clinging on to the underside of the seed head of a stalk of grass growing by the side of a canal.

Jack by the hedge stem, with some flowers still remaining and others having begun to develop into seeds. There is a thread showing a small spider is in residence.

Bumble bees collecting pollen from cistus (rock rose) flowers.

The legs and furry bodies of the bees are sprinkled with pollen.

Canada goose chicks taking an outing with their mother on the Birmingham Canal. A pair of mallards on the nest and a coot also manage to get into pictures.

White waterlily flowers when they were just beginning to open on the fishing pool in Fowler’s Park.