Category: David

Comma butterfly resting on a dusty canalside footpath, spreading its wings in the morning sun to get warm enough to fly.

Dogs mercury flowering, and beginning to turn to seed. Usually found in shady woodland, but this was under the hedge by the canalside footpath.

Mining bee, possibly a tawny mining bee (Andrena fulva), going for flower to flower in a patch of lesser celandine, adding a little to its already bulging pollen baskets at each one.

Clematis flowering, covering much of the street-facing one of one of the houses on the Cartway at Bridgnorth.

Catkins aren’t there to attract insects, but to have the pollen get to the female flowers by being carried on the breeze. But this tortoiseshell butterfly was gorging itself on the pollen of a pussy willow by the canal at Compton.

Violets and lesser celandines flowering in near vicinity in the steep bank by Mops Farm Bridge on the canal between Castlecroft and Dimmingsdale.