Resident swans on West Park lake have had breeding successes for several years in a row. Here a pair of protective adults with their brood of six cygnets which were only a day or two old when these pictures were taken the middle of last month.
The bright orange and yellow of hawkbit flowers contrasting with the green of a lawn in the background, noticed in passing in someone’s front garden.
Bee orchids, the flowers mimicking the insects they attract to pollinate them, growing earlier today in the Wren’s Nest, the national nature reserve in the heart of the Black Country.
Red-headed cardinal beetle sunbathing on a leaf. They are quite fond of sunbathing. When they are doing it, the contrast between their red colour and the green of the leaves they are on makes them easy to spot.
Ducklings, some onlly recently hatched, on outings on or beside the canal at different points between Newbridge and the Water Bridge. Three different broods each out with the mother mallard on the same morning earlier this month.
Starling on a daisy-studded patch of the lawns in West Park, prowling around looking for prey.