Category: David

A comma butterfly spreading its wings as it fed by the canal at Castlecroft. The comma which gives the species its name is just about visible on the underwing in the last picture.

Plants, including a mousetail and a fern, managing to cling on and grow on the bare granite of a wall in St Ives (the Cornish one).

Starlings gathering on the roofs of Topsham by the Exe estuary at sunset. Every so often a group of them would take off and form a mini-murmuration. Later they headed off to spend the night on the nearby reed beds.

Three or four rabbits in a field, snacking on grass in the morning sunlight.

Web of a nursery web spider. I didn’t get close enough to see if the infant spiders were still in the protective web.

Not all moths are dowdy grey or brown coloured and night-flying. Scarlet tiger moths definitely don’t fit that stereotype, with their richly-patterned bright colouring and habit of flying when it’s light, especially in the afternoon and evening. This one was on vegetation behind Porthmear Beach, St Ives.