David

Early one morning, early in August, this hedgehog was collecting dead leaves and carrying them back into a pile of pruned twigs. It may have started before I noticed it, and carried on for at least half an hour while I was there, though it made a couple of pauses to retreat into the twig pile when a neighbour’s cat came round on the prowl.

This young frog had just emerged from some water which had been left out in a dark container.

A kestrel hovering over the same spot as it hunted for prey in a field by the side of the Bridgnorth road near Trescott. Just after these pictures were taken it pounced – and caught something.

The crows of Sutton Park are used to human disturbance, and less prone to flee than elsewhere.

This one was playing with a short piece of wood, and taking even less notice of me.

The various shades in its plumage weren’t visible to my naked eye: it looked the standard carrion crow black.

This flowering meadowsweet was attracting a lot of insects. The honey bee and hoverfly were the ones which cooperated in being pictured.

This poplar hawk moth was settled for the day on a pile of leaves and dirt at the outer side of a garden wall.