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A damselfly with a metallic green body and almost transparent green wings. This female kept shuffling her position slightly as she rested on a reed leaf near the Packhorse Bridge in Marsh Lane NLR, Hampton in Arden.

Snails on the small pond at the Coombes Valley RSPB Reserve in Staffordshire.

There is also a water boatman towards the right in the picture below.

Two commas in the Marsh Lane LNR, Hampton in Arden, at the start of July.

A butterfly bush doesn’t just attract butterflies.

Holly berries starting off a matching green to the leaves, before turning a contrasting red in midwinter.

A coot on its nest on the Stourbridge canal.

The adult stage of a dragonfly emerging on a reed on the edge of the pond at Wightwick Manor.

This hoverfly was obligingly taking long pauses on a leaf above a small pond.

The two tiny insects on this thistle flower have tails longer than their bodies.

A dragonfly resting on a leaf by one of the pools at Barrow Hill LNR, Pensnett.