Category: David

Mallard mother taking her young chicks for a swim.

The birds were on the Birmingham Canal, near the Dixon Street bridge.

Half-grown coot chick which was swimming up and down a section of the lake at West Park, frequently diving to grab something to eat.

Heavy corroded mooring rings on a jetty in the south of France resort of Cassis, near Marseilles.

Male common blue damselfly, this time resting on a reed leaf.

Taken in the same area as the damselfly in yesterday’s post, but probably not the same individual. There were several of them around that day.

Female lobed argiope spider which featured in a post yesterday.

These pictures were taken a couple of days later.

There was no longer any sign of the male …

Male common blue damselfly resting on a leaf of one of the bramble bushes by Pool Hall fishing lake.