David

A tiny day-flying moth rests on the leaf next to some bryony flowers.

Close-up of a bryony stem, showing a tendril used to clasp onto other plants for support. There is cuckoo-spit where the stem divides.

Flower of a bryony growing in the hedge by the canal at Castlecroft.

Fluffy duckling on the pool of a small park in the southern French coastal resort of Cassis.

Young moorhen chick swimming out into the middle of the canal at Compton, watched over by one of the parents.

Mass of young cross spiders huddling together in a web. The spiderlets had disappeared by the next morning, together with almost all evidence of the web.