Bulrush flowers at Compton Park pool. While the individual flowers look attractive, the plants are taking over and choking the pool, which was only created a few years ago as a water feature when part of the park was covered in a new housing estate. Since then, nothing appears to have been done to maintain the pool.
Hawker dragonflies aren’t very big. They do fly fast, changing direction seemingly at random as they patrol their territories. This brown hawker was on the wing over the canal between Compton and Wi9ghtwick.
Recent spells of heavy rain have meant another burst of summer fungi. This lurid bolete on a front lawn had already been heavily nibbled when I noticed it. The culprits were most likely slugs or snails.
Another visit to West Park, with the heron once again on a favoured perch. This time it was stretching so tall it almost looked like it was on stilts.
Sloes on one of the thick hedge of blackthorn bushes at the edge of the Barley Field, still unripe.
Hadn’t seen any signs of the muscovy duck drake on the lake at Perton for several month. Finally, one morning recently, there he was right by the fence in the feeding area where the Penk flows into the pool.