A male banded demoiselle damselfly rests on a leaf overhanging the River Avon at Stratford, while a male broad-bodied chaser dragonfly is in the middle of a riverside footpath nearby. Both are hoping to attract females.
pears ripening on their tree, and a wasp grateful for a windfall. The orchard, Anne Hathaway’s cottage, Shottery.
Apples aren’t the only fruit grown in orchards. These plums and pears, along with a lot of old varieties of apples, were in the orchard at Anne Hathaway’s cottage, Shottery.
A tiny cherry bird ermine moth resting up in the daytime on purple loosestrife flowers.
Some fruits and berries have benefited from this year’s weather, with a wet spring and a long dry summer. The crops of sloes on the blackthorns for one.
A long dry summer means there have ben very few fungi this year. We noticed these few hare’s foot inkcap growing on a pile of wood chip mulch, a food source they favour.