Category: David

Reed beetles (Donacia vulgaris), quite common on vegetation at the edge of water. Here a pair were mating, on a reed leaf.

Male blackbird on the branch of a tree overhanging the Severn at Bridgnorth, watching me suspiciously

Lupin, with its flowers just opening, in the garden at Northycote Farm.

Six-spot burnet moth (Zygaena filipendulae) taking a brief rest at Baggeridge Country Park yesterday. There were several different butterfly and moth species about; four or five kinds of dragonfly and at least three types of damselfly. Among the many wild flowers were a crowd of orchids.

Lamb with very long front legs, kneeling to eat grass, and others in the same field which didn’t seem to share the problem.

Hungry magpie stooping down to eat something unsavoury-looking from the path by West Park lake, showing off its irridescent feathers as it does so.