Category: David

Another view of the road-leaved helleborine, a woodland orchid, growing on the edge of Lydiates Wood, Baggeridge Country Park. Pictures taken early August, just before the plant was to come into flower.

Russula (brittlegill) mushrooms, species not identified, under the trees of Himley Plantation. A group of fungi which often have strongly coloured caps.

Mullein flowers growing by a footpath as a bumblebee was visiting.

Pen (female swan) and two half-grown cygnets approaching me, swimming on the Avon just north of Stratford.

Spiky teazle flowers, viewed from above. They were growing on a plant which, unusually, reached only to waist level.

Red-tailed bumblebee, a common bee species, on greater knapweed flowers.