David

Mast – beech nuts with their spiky outer covering – ripening, here on a tree in Compton Park.

Teazle seed heads on one of the plants by the Compton Park pool, topped by a lone resting bee.

Boletes growing on Finchfield Green (the grassy area in front of the shops).

Female goosander drinking from the Severn just upstream from Bylet island at Bridgnorth, and a little later on the gravel nearby, preening.

Beginning to open, the flower cluster on one stem of a umbellifer.

Heron standing on one of the anglers’ platforms on the lowest pool in Baggeridge Country Park, stretching its body as it sunbathes, all reflected in the calm water of the pool.