David

Holly blue butterfly on the ground of the towpath at Castlecroft, walking along delicately.

Teal seen from the octagonal hide at Doxey Marshes, preening and feeding.

Wild garlic flowers on a woody bank by the canal near Aldersley Junction. Unopened flowers from the same patch here.

Heron with a patch on a narrow arm of Tillington Pool, Doxey Marshes. Here standing at the edge of the water by the far shore, seeming unconcerned at my presence on the footpath on the opposite bank.

Peacock butterfly by the towpath at Compton, feeding on dandelion flower after resting on a nearby. on hawthorn leaf

Reed bunting high in a bush and calling, on the edge of the Doxey Marshes Nature Reserve.