Category: David

One of the black-headed gulls of West Park, not yet old enough to be in adult plumage.

Acorn just beginning to ripen on what I guess may be a species of oak which is at home in southern Europe – this was almost on the shore of the Med.

Pair of very young moorhen chicks with their fluffy feathers, trying to look inconspicuous in reeds at the edge of the canal by Compton.

Young and incautious magpie investigates one of the paths at West Park

Prickly pears were originally a new world cactus, but are now widespread around the Med.

One flower on this plant had just opened as some of the fruit were already beginning to ripen.

Early morning, with lots of bumblebees on a clump of lavender.

It was still cool, and the bees seemed to be walking, not flying, as they moved from floret to floret.