Category: David

Yellow cracking boletes, growing in a patch under trees on a lawn by a main road.

Goslings – three different sets, at different ages, on the same day last month by the bridge at Bridgnorth. The parents were the almost all white of feral birds, with some small patches of feathers hinting at partial greylag descent.

Purple patch among the yellow: a meadow cranesbill in field where the buttercup flowers looked to be so many it was as if they had been sown as a crop.

Dunnock on the top of a wall, looking around. Someone came from the other direction, so the bird decided it was time to go.

View over Rock Pool, just upstream from the buildings in Himley Hall park, looking peaceful with the water lily leaves and the reflections of the fringing trees.

Scarce chaser (Libellula fulva) dragonfly, seen near the estuary end of the Exeter Canal. Seen mid-June 2017, but I’ve just noticed that the picture hadn’t been posted yet.

Looks very like the much more common broad-bodied chaser. If a local birder hadn’t pointed out that they could be found there, I would almost certainly have missed it.