Category: David

White oleander flowers against a background of a Mediterranean sky.

It’s a cricket – Eupholidoptera chabrieri to be precise. It was in France. So it’s a French cricket.

Greater spotted woodpecker, probably a young male, just visible as patches of red in the centre of the picture.

Apparently the bird is a regular visitor to the trees around the Combermere Arms beer garden.

Two of the geese at Northycote Farm. They had both just been eating grass.

A rosebay willowherb comes into flower, the flowers lower down on the stem opening first.

Rowan (mountain ash) berries beginning to ripen on a tree on the edge of the Barley Field.