David

The farm animal area at Northycote has been closed for some time because of COVID lockdown restrictions. It’s now re-opened, in time to make it possible to get closer to the lambs, not long born.

Tiny hoverfly, one of the Bacchini tribe, resting near the tip of a laurel leaf

Basking in the sun, standing in the lake on a half-submerged fallen branch, the West Park turtle. It was moving, but very slowly. Perhaps to get exactly the right angle from the sunlight, perhaps to keep its balance as the coot on the other end of the branch preened.

Snakes head fritillary flowers in a front garden recently. Now gone over for another year.

Dangling from the end of a twig, a trio of catkins on a silver birch.

Honey bee diving gathering pollen from a camellia flower, diving so deep that at one point it submerged out of sight.