Category: David

The golden y moth gets its name from the pale marking which can be seen here half way along the wing.

This one had flown indoors and landed on a sheet of paper.

The glistening effect on these honeysuckle berries and leaves may have been even more pronounced if I hadn’t taken the picture in an interval between two very heavy showers.

Enthusiasts for DIY sloe gin are in for a disappointment this year. The weather earlier this year meant that very few blackthorn flowers set fruit.

Today’s pictures are two views of the same sloe. They were taken at the same time as the one featured the day before yesterday. That sloe was on the next bush. They were the only two berries I noticed in a quick look around a patch of bushes which are normally covered in sloes at this time of year.

These tiny mushrooms were growing at the base of a tree trunk.

Bryony berries beginning to ripen (above) and an image in shades of green (below).

These thistle seeds hadn’t quite succeeded in getting away from their parent plant.