Category: David

Comma butterfly, showing the “comma” (white undeerwing mark) as it fed on a buddleia flower.

Lone ear on a single stalk of wheat, growing in a garden under a bird seed feeder.

Male ruddy darter dragonfly perching on vegetation near a small pool in Baggeridge Country Park at the start of the month.

Two large white butterflies on a patch of damp ground. They walked towards each other, then stood facing, seemed to sniffing each other with their antennae.

Probably brought in as an eco-friendly way of controlling the vegetation in the area where Toposcope Hill comes down to Bags Pool, a small group of goats. When I noticed them, they were resting in deep shade to avoid the mid-morning heat.

Bumblebees gathering from St John’s wort flowers, their pollen baskets so heavily-laden they look full already.