David

Female beautiful demoiselle damselfly standing on a hazel leaf, and a male (below) on a hawthorn leaf. Both bushes were in the hedge by the towpath at Castlecroft.

Barley Field in the Smestow Valley Nature Reserve is left unmown until late August to encourage wild flowers.

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.