Category: David

Juniper berries (actually seeds) at different stages of ripening.

Pictures of a bush growing in sight of the Med.

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.