Categories DavidThistle flower with long tailed insects Post author By David Post date 1 August 2011 There are two tiny insects with very long tails feeding on this thistle flower.
Categories DavidUnripe damsons Post author By David Post date 31 July 2011 These fruit have swollen pretty much to full size, but have not yet begun to change colour.
Categories DavidBlack headed gulls feeding on a golf course Post author By David Post date 31 July 2011 These gulls were busily feeding on short grass by a lake next to a golf course, but when someone came along they took flight instantly.
Categories DavidSwan cleaning itself Post author By David Post date 31 July 2011 A swan paying attention to its wing feathers.
Categories DavidFemale banded agrion damselfly Post author By David Post date 30 July 2011 A damselfly with a metallic green body and almost transparent green wings. This female kept shuffling her position slightly as she rested on a reed leaf near the Packhorse Bridge in Marsh Lane NLR, Hampton in Arden.
Categories DavidWater snails Post author By David Post date 30 July 2011 Snails on the small pond at the Coombes Valley RSPB Reserve in Staffordshire.There is also a water boatman towards the right in the picture below.