Category: David

May is the month for the delicate flowers of cow parsley.

The scarlet tiger moth caterpillar which had made an indoor visit (yesterday’s post) now returned to the more appropriate surroundings of a garden well stocked with plenty of vegetation.

Doing its best to eat the alkanet leaf it was resting on.

May (hawthorn) flowers in the hedge separating the Barley Field from the Railway Walk, earlier this month.

A pair of Canada geese with goslings, and, a little further along the shore of the lake at West Park, a pair of greylag geese with goslings which were a little older.

Dandelions spreading over one of the areas of short grass in Compton Park, the seed-heads all ripening at the same time.

A scarlet tiger moth caterpillar had somehow got inside the house. There was no vegetation in the room, so it must have made its entry after it had eaten enough to grow to the size it was.