David

Some of the bees which were visiting alkanet flowers when they were at the height of their flowering season.

Swan family: pen, cob and two young cygnets, half-hidden in a reed bed on the edge of the canal at Castlecroft.

Emerald green colopurs on this demoiselle damselfly resting on a leaf in Compton Rough in the Smestow Valley Local Nature Reserve.

Pair of Canada geese on West Park boating lake coming to the shore so thier ten goslings can have a little snack.

The northern slope of the Barley Field in the Smestow Valley LNR, a mass of cow parsley in flower.

Moorhen with two chicks, heading for the safety of a rather sparse patch of reeds on the canal at Compton.