Category: David

Meadow salsify, also known among other names as jack got to bed at noon, in various betwixt and between states: flower about to open, flowering finished but seed-head not yet ripe and open, and seed-head almost gone.

This year’s West Park cygnets, now growing larger, here feeding on poolside algae along with their parents.

A blue-tailed damselfly resting on the ground at the RSPB Mimsmere Reserve.

Green-veined white butterfly resting on an ivy leaf. Because the wings are closed, the darker patterns along the veins can be seen, and a definite identification of the species made.

Footprints from one of the smaller deer species, left in deep mud at the edge of a quiet Suffolk lane, which was passing through a lightly wooded area.

Butterflies on the margins of the Smestow Valley LNR’s Barley Field recently: a gatekeeper, meadow brown and a comma.