Category: David

Black (in reality dark purple) poppies as they were lat month at their end of the flowering season, the petals contorting before they fell off completely.

Maguerite daisy flowers, one fully out, another a bud just beginning to open.

Group of eight adult geese together with seventeen goslings. The group were swimming in the Severn close to the Bylet at Bridgnorth. They came ashore there, and then started preening, the young ones imitating the adults. Two of the adults and a couple of the goslings walked across the beach and waded into the water to preen. The side stream had dried up into a series of pools.

Female orange tip butterfly on a jack by the hedge, one of the preferred food plants of this insect. Only the males have orange tips to thneir wings. The green pattern on the underwings which distinguish the females from other types of whites is just visible in some of these pictures.

I sat down for a short pause on the bench by Wightwick Mill lock, and noticed this moorhen sitting on a nest in flattened reeds directly opposite.

Coot chicks from the same brood as in yesterday’s post, out for an early morning swim. Although they were now big enough to feed for themselves, one was still successfully demanding food from a parent.