David

These acorns were beginning to develop on one of the exotic oak trees in Bantock Park recently.

This bumble bee seemed to be systematically visiting every flower on a St John’s wort in mid-July.

It was only seven o’clock in the morning, but its pollen baskets already looked full.

This magpie was so busy looking for something in the lawn that it was ignoring the busy Tettenhall Road.

A bunch of delicate white flowers growing at about knee height.

Shiny eyes and carapace, wings which are veined, glittering and transparent, and hairy at the extremes. Just a fly, but what a range of textures.

A thistle in Barley Field, Smestow Valley LNR, with the top flower fully open, and the others just about to open too.