Category: David

Blue-tailed damselfly resting on the seed-head of a poolside reed.

Wild roses flowering on a bush growing on the edge of the Barley Field in the Smestow Valley Nature Reserve.

Coot feeding a chick on West Park lake.

This is either the ones shown here, or here.

Several coot pairs living on the lake seem to have had breeding successes this year, but each just with a single chick.

Single moorhen chick together with one parent.

They were swimming and feeding on the canal near Compton.

Close-ups of some of the orchids growing on the floor of the Doulton Claypit in the Saltwells Nature Reserve.

They are either southern marsh orchids, common spotted orchids, or crosses between these two species.

A single orchid in front of the contrasting yellow flowers of iris and yellow rattle, in a marshy area of the former quarry on the Saltwells Nature Reserve.