Category: David

Some sort of umbellifer with delicately pink flowers, with a bumblebee busily gathering pollen.

The plant has flowered, petals have gone. Now the seeds on the stems of this marsh marigold are beginning to develop.

The coots with chicks I have noticed locally this year seem to have small broods: one or at most two. Here is one of the several lone chicks on the lake at West Park, well grown enough to be able to feed itself, but still insistently demanding food from a parent.

Common blue butterfly which kept on landing on cranesbills growing by the canal towpath near the water bridge recently.

Fern growing by the bank of the canal. Just beginning to open, and looking like a natural version of a bishop’s staff of office.

Why this time of year is a trial for hay fever sufferers. Different species of grass, all heavy with pollen. These were in the Barley Field recently.