Once more from the small pond in Bewdley Museum garden, two great pond snails.
Buff-tailed bumblebee on red sunflower
A bumblebee shuffling around gathering pollen from a bright red sunflower. Once again, this was in the little gem of a walled garden in the museum at Bewdley.
Second flowering wisteria, Bewdley
A white-flowered wisteria putting out a second set of flowers in August. The setting: the beer garden of the George Hotel in Bewdley.
Common darter, Bewdley
Common darters are indeed among the dragonflies most likely to be spotted. The first of these was resting on vegetation by the small pond in the museum at Bewdley; the second by the nearby pond in Jubilee Gardens.
This second one may have been the loser in a contest we had seen a few minutes previously, to decide which of two dragonflies would have the evidently desirable territory of the museum pond.
Grapes ripening, Bewdley
Grapes growing in the town museum at Bewdley, looking like the long, hot summer was ripening them completely.
Blue-tailed damselfly, Bewdley
The little pond in the small garden at Bewdley museum also attracted damselflies and dragonflies. This small blue damselfly seemed to spend most of its time resting on lily pads, perhaps hoping to attract a mate.
We were told that the pond also had resident newts, but these tend not to show themselves in the middle of hot days in August.