Category: David

Small water snails from the Compton Park pool, out of the water. One is resting in the burs of a bur reed, the other on a reed leaf.

Bee busily gathering pollen from a cornflower, the insect seeming to have only a minimal connection between its thorax and abdomen.

Horse’s hoof, a polypore fungus which usually appears low down on the trunk of the trees it is infesting, this one shiny after recent rain. Also known as the tinder fungus, being a species which readily lights from sparks when dry. There were four pieces of this fungus for use as tinder being carried by Ötzi the Iceman whose body was recovered after 5,000 years frozen in an Alpine glacier.

Pale moth (species not identified) resting on some of the rosebay willowherb flowers in a corner of the Barley Field at the end of last month.

A red tinge to the young leaves growing on this year’s extension of twigs on an oak. The leaves have since changed colour to match the green of those on the rest of the tree.

Gatekeeper butterfly resting on stems of the drying grasses on the Barley Field, warming itself in the midday sun.