David

Canada geese flying, circling one of the islands in the lake at West Park for no obvious reason.

The coot chicks were still not venturing out of the nest. But they were now standing up high enough to give a clear view of four of them. Both parents were now off the nest at the same time, being kept extremely busy on a conveyor belt finding food and ferrying it to the chicks.

Greater celandines flowering. These were right on the edge of the canal bank at Castlecroft, overhanging the water.

A comma butterfly spreading its wings to warm itself in the sun as it rested on a nettle leaf by the canal at Wightwick.

Our annual visit to the Mermaid at Wightwick to see its wisteria flowering. Perhaps a week or so before the season was at its peak, but there were still plenty of flowers out.

There haven’t been many butterflies about at all this year. This male orange tip landed by the canal at Wightwick, partially hidden in the short grass.