Female mallard with two recently hatched ducklings, tip of the Bylet, Bridgnorth. One duckling was swimming in the current as if jet propelled, hawking for flies. The other one pictured was sleeping on the island, just like mother. A third duckling appeared after I put the camera away.
Crowd of bees gathering by a crack high in the remains of Bridgnorth Castle, almost certainly their home.
Horses in a field by the canal at Castlecroft. They always seem to be eating when I’m down that way.
Pair of orange tip butterflies mating while on a jack by the hedge, the preferred food plant of the species. A wider view (final picture) shows the plant had also attracted other orange tips.
Male orange tip butterfly fluttering as it heads towards a female perched on a grass stalk. The female (which doesn’t have the orange patch that gives the species its name) is waving her abdomen in the air to spread the pherenomes which have attracted the male. These pictures taken a week later than the sequence in the previous post.
Horse chestnut flowers at every stage of opening from buds to full flower.