Category: David

Garden chafer, with its vivid red and green colours, on a nettle flower which it appeared to be eating.

Bumblebee flying from flower to flower on a garden knapweed.

Moorhen chick, the only one out with a parent bird on the canal near the Water Bridge. Probably very recently hatched when these pictures were taken, its down showing a bald patch at the top of the head.

Male banded demoiselle damselfly resting, or displaying, on a leaf by the canal towpath opposite the Wildside Centre last month.

Lesser black-backed gulls using thin ice warning signs as lookout posts at the edge of West Park boating lake.

Pair of ladybirds on a ribes leaf, mating. The position they chose turned out to be precarious – they end up almost falling off their leaf.