Category: David

Mullein, artichoke and mint flowers in the garden at Shakespeare’s Birthplace, attracting bees and hoverflies.

Young dunnock, almost within reach as it perched on a bare twig in the garden at New Place, Stratford on Avon.

Artists palette fungus along the remains of the trunk of a tree fallen over the bank of the Avon at Stratford.

Young piglets resting in the morning sun in the sty at Mary Arden’s Farm with the mother, an Oxford sandy and black sow. The father was a Mangalitza boar.

Banded demoiselle damselflies on the wing, occasionally pausing to rest on a waterlily, on the River Avon at Stratford. At least three males were competing for what was presumably prime territory.

Spotted flycatcher in bushes on the slope of Toposcope Hill, Baggeridge Country Park, earlier today. The only one of what sounded like a group of three or four which was actually visible. They were presumably taking a pause on the autumn migration.