Category: David

Ragged butterfly resting on a thistle seed head. Probably a female common blue – identification solely on the grounds that the only other individual in its vicinity was a male common blue.

Lone wild arum in the middle of a nettle patch., its berries turning red, ripening.

English Longhorn calf resting in the summer heat in esrly August, one of the traditional breeds livestonck on mary Arden’s Farm, Wilmcote.

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.