Category: David

Yellows on the bee’s body, the petals and the nectar of the coneflower being visited by a bumblebee.

Brown hawker dragonfly on patrol along its territory, a short stretch of the canal where it runs between the racecourse and Aldersely Stadium.

Blackberries: at every stage of developing: half-ripe, ripe, over-ripe. These were growing just a few inches from the dasons in yesterday’s post.

Three mallards on a stone in the canal. Two probably hatched this spring, now well grown, with the other their mother. The nearest young bird stretches for a sip of the water, stands up and stretches its wings.

Half-ripe damsons hanging from a twig of a roadside bush.

Young swallows on telephone lines on one of the lanes by Lower Penn. These birds were getting ready for the long migration to southern Africa when the pictures were taken five years ago. A sight which has sadly become much rarer since.