Category: David

Comma butterfly, the “comma” prominent on its underwing as it feeds on a thistle flower.

Fluffy coot chicks on local canals. The younger set were with a parent opposite the Wildside Centre. The other pair, by the Science Park, were with both parents and what might have been an older sibling from a brood earlier this year, already in more or less adult plumage.

When I stopped to look at this group, all of them started swimming towards me at top speed, evidently expecting food.

Robin’s pincushion, a wasp gall infecting rose briars, looking like a tangle of thread on a bush in Baggeridge Country Park.

Bee visiting a mass of meadowsweet flowers, gathering pollen.

Sweetpea pods, ripening on the same plant which had been flowering a fortnight earlier.

Blue butterfly, probably a holly blue, resting on ground made damp by watering.