Category: David

Half-grown goslings on Mary Arden’s Farm, Wilmcote. Providing the scenic background, a dung heap.

Medlar flowers, seen when they were past their peak, on trees in the garden of Shakespeare’s bithplace and elsewhere in Stratford on Avon.

Elegant beetle, with metallic green and yellow wings and thorax, resting and eating on a flower.

Large gathering of swans, many of them immature, on the Avon at Stratford, waiting to be fed by tourists. A Canada goose was surrounded by the crowd.

Showy flowers from a canalside flag iris, one of which had attracted a tiny bronze beetle.

Mallard ducklings, with mother, noticed by West Park’s boating lake on Monday. So small they must have hatched earlier that day.