Category: David

A wet August means the fungi flush, peak mushroom season, has started early this year. Shaggy parasols, at a spot where they regularly grow in East Park, had only emerged recently when these pictures were taken.

Group of three female goosanders swimming downstream on the River Wye at Hereford a couple of weeks ago. Perhaps on autumn migration: there was no sign of them the following day.

A vivid sunset on the River Wye at Heereford earlier this month, the effect intensified with the sky reflected in the water.

Painted lady butterfly resting on the trackside ballast at Hereford railway station. The insect had just finished feeding on a nearby buddleia bush, and was perhaps warming itself in the sun.

Bee busy collecting pollen, working its way systematically through the flowers of a forget-me-not.

The Prince, mushroom, fruiting bodies pushing their way through the vegetation in a spot where they emerge regularly each year, usually in August. The first four pictures in this set were taken within perhaps a day of the fruiting bodies emerging; the other four pictures a week later.