Category: David

Southern hawker hanging on an oak leaf on the edge Turner’s Field pond, front half visble only in silhouette.

Funnel cap mushrooms in the Old Nursery woods. Nothing had eaten any of them. Instead they were covered in mould, and steadily being eaten up.

More male common darters in flight defending their territories, this time on the pond in Turner’s Field.

This set is of male common darters, flying to defend their territories along the margin of the Old Nursery pond.

Several posts of pictures of red darter dragonflies on the two ponds near the Old Nursery in the Smestow Valley Nature Reserve. This is a male resting on a piece of chipboard in Old Nursery pond.

As last in the sequence, a female common darter (greenish, rather than red), resting on the gravel of the path around the Old Nursery pond.