Category: David

Flowering among the riverbank vegetation in Stratford on Avon, wild angelica. It can be found by the river as long as the banks are not carefully manicured.

The horns, or possibly antennae, of this tiny insect are long in proportion to its body. It was wandering around on the leaves of the tangled vegetation by the banks of the Avon at Stratford.

A pair of red kites were circling, using a thermal to gain height over the Riverside Project reserve in Stratford. By the time I’d fumbled for my camera they were quite high, so all I got was of these two shots, which I think are of the same bird. Then they had flown out of sight.

Marmalade hover flies are really tiny. Here, two of them are busy feeding on the same dandelion flower.

Two banded demoiselles rest on river bank vegetation overhanging the Avon at Stratford. The (bright blue) males are often quite easy to spot, the (green) females less so.

Birds foot trefoil flowering in one of the open spaces in the Riverside Project nature reserve in Stratford. One of the wildflowers which had colonised the area without deliberate planting during the decades when it was left with only light management.

Some water mint has also managed to sneak in towards the end of this picture. It’s another wildflower which is capable of spreading unaided.