Category: David

Small, young smooth newt cooling off on a hot afternoon by almost submerging itself in a bird bath. The spider by its tail is probably not aquatic.

Goslings, quite well grown, almost under the shadow of Dimmingsdale bridge on the canal. The Canada goose parents were keeping a close watch nearby.

One lone duckling, so small it looked very recently hatched, on the canal near Compton Lock. The mother mallard was very near by, just out of shot.

Successive stages in the development, post flowering, of a jack by the hedge (meadow salsify)

Bantock Park: a starling searching among the closely mown grass of the formal lawn area for worms and other food to take back to young at the nest.

Lone poppy flowering by the brickwork of the bridge over the canal at Dimmingsdale, the first wild poppy I noticed this year.