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Unripe acorns in a picture which seems to consist of different shades of green.

When the new pool at Compton Park became accessible last month, there were three species of dragonfly using it. The only ones being cooperative enough to be identifiable in photos were common darters.

A couple of the common darters kept resting on the decking by the bridge over the pool.

Other favoured resting spots were on vegetation at the side of the pool.

Scarletina boletes growing with distorted shapes on the grass by the Finchfield shops. A pair growing together …

and one with a lobed cap.

Other mushrooms from the same group have featured here.

Bumblebee making an early morning foraging visit to a dahlia flower.

Hoverfly,peacock butterfly (in two pictures), bumblebee and large white butterfly all feeding on the flowers of the same old man’s beard plant.

The pictures were all taken at the same time, on a sunny day about a month ago when the plant’s flowers were at their height.

Sloes darkening as they begin to ripen. If the weather continues to be favourable there should be a good crop this year.