Category: David

Flowers on a firecracker plant in a local garden, indeed looking a little like the sparks falling from a firework

More artwork on the brickwork of the bridges crossing the South Staffordshire section of the Railway Walk at Lower Penn.

This time it’s dogs: perhaps even ones which are (or were) walked along this section of the bridgle path.

Blackfly predating on a foxglove, which was then just about to flower; ants in turn predating on the blackfly.

The ants may possibly be black garden ants, the blackfly possibly cowpea aphids.

Painted lady butterfly earlier this month – whenever I got almost near enough for a picture, it either fled to the neighbouring front garden, or half-hid behind vegetation.

It looked pristine. Unlikely to be a migrant from the continental mainland. Last year there was abig wave of migration – this may for once have been a resulting British-grown individual.

Male blackbirds, possibly even the seem bird, seen over several early mornings in West Park, searching for food in short grass.

Perhaps it’s just me, but the defensive spikes on these unripe ribes make them look rather similar to the artists’ impressions of the coronavirus which have been all over the news bulletins for the last few months.