Category: David

Wasp on a camelia flower, pausing before it heads for the centre to get some pollen.

Mining bee, a different species than the one featured in a post yesterday. This one many be an early mining bee.

Sequence of bracket fungi growing in a split in the bark of a large oak by the roadside at the edge of Seisdon.

Mining bee, solitary bee seen early in the season. ID’d by iNaturalist as a yellow-legged mining bee. If that’s correct, it was towards the northern edge of its range.

I’ve seen very few coltsfoots this year. These were flowering right at the edge of the canal between Aldersley and Oxley.

Blackthorn flowers cover their bushes before the leaves begin to break. Long stretches of the hedge along Langley Road, dropping down out of town from Merry Hill, are planted with blackthorn. These were the first flowers to start to open, in a oprocess which should now be at its height.