Category: David

One of the West Park magpies, concentrating totally on the task, searching for morsels to eat among the short grass.

Marmalade hover flies, they’re tiny. When seen close to, their most obvious feature, at least to me, is bright red eyes which look disproportionately large. There’s been a lot of them about this month.

Heron on one of the favoured perches on the West Park lake, a fallen but still growing willow coming over the water from one of the islands. The water’s colour is because something has been added to prevent algal bloom.

Speckled wood butterfly resting on a leaf as it warmed itself in morning sunlight.

A pellucid hoverfly (Volucella pellucens), one of the larger hoverflies. Normally a woodland species, but occasionally found in gardens. This one was on a leaf on a bay tree, where it might have slept overnight.

A small hart’s tongue fern growing on the mortar of one of the bridges over the 21 locks section of the Birmingham Canal in Wolverhampton.