Category: David

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.

Hazelnuts just beginning to develop, on a bush in the hedge by the towpath at Wightwick.

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.