Category: David

Pair of azure damselflies engaging in their airborne mating over the pool at Compton Park, then landing on the water for the female to deposit the eggs. meanwhile, another, spurned male rests on a leaf.

Teazles growing by the side of Toposcope Hill, Baggeridge Country Park, this year’s teazles just beginning to develop.

A willow beauty moth which landed on a window, staying for some hours.

Hedge woundwort growing by the edge of the canal, just beginning to flower.

A mass of stonecrop flowers, possibly tasteless stonecrop, growing all along the edge of a car park.

Whirlygig beetles zooming over the surface of a pool in Baggeridge Country park, sending out circles of ripples which mark their presence.