David

This oak apple, on a tree on the edge of Barley Field, can only have started developing very shortly before the picture was taken. Perhaps it is this colouring which gives these galls the “apple” tag.

Female orange tip butterfly resting on a nettle leaf.

Only the males have the distinctive orange tip on their wings.

Tip of a young fern, its leaves beginning to spread. Threads of spider silk were catching the sunlight.

Buzzard rising on a thermal on its first flight of the day at Pendeford Mill.

Starling prospecting the recently-mown grass by a pedestrian crossing for food.

Possibly a Welsh poppy, which often (as here) grows self-sown in gardens.