Category: David

The formal Dutch Garden at the back of Bantock House just has to have tulips in season. Here a sample of the flowers.

A garden pond with frogs. Sometimes they were almost submerged, hidden by pondweed. At other times they had emerged, but were still obscured by the vegetation overhanging the pond.

A fungus (species totally unidentified) growing directly out of a brick wall. It must be getting the nutrients for the energy it needs from the moss which is growing alongside it. In return, it may be helping the moss to extract minerals from the mortar.

Some Canada goose goslings on the West Park lake with the parent birds. The goslings looked very young: perhaps even hatched earlier that morning, and out on the water for the first time.

A sun fly resting on a leaf, sunning itself. Sun flies are species of hoverflies, and are quite common.

Another day, another visit to West Park. Once again, a magpie on the daisy lawn was busy picking away for insects or other invertebrates to nibble, unconcerned that I was nearby.

These pictures taken a week and a half ago. The daisies are still there, but they are beginning to get past their peak. The magpies are still there, and they will still be there when the daisies return next year and beyond.