David

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.

Immature herring gull, West Park. It objected to having its picture taken, flew off to the middle of the water.

Two tiny frogs, the smaller about an inch long, which were resting on the rim of a bird bath. The spot is sometimes also visited by a larger frog.