Category: David

Female beautiful demoiselle at rest on a leaf, hard to spot as a set of more vivid greens against the greens of the vegetation.

Holly blue butterfly which was flying round a small patch by the canal towpath a short distance from Meccano Bridge. It frequently landed for a short pause on the ground or on a leaf, before taking off for a random flittering flight to its next station.

Pink and white flowers, each from a roadside bindweed, smaller and, in my opinion, much more attractive than the white flowers of the convulvulus which is such a menace in gardens.

This year I missed the main flowering season for the orchids of Baggeridge Country Park. When I did manage to get there, in mid-July, the last few flowers were on plants which were mainly going to seed.

A bumblebee and several tiny black beetles attracted to the rich food source on a thistle flower in the wildflower meadow at Bantock Park.

Tiny moorhen chick seen on the canal near the Wildside Centre yesterday. Probably emerged from its egg that same morning.