The coot chicks by the West Park island getting more adventurous. Four originally hatched on this nest. Three survived long enough to begin swimming, and the three still seem to be doing well at the time of writing.
A female orange tip butterfly feeding on a jack by the hedge flower, and perhaps also laying eggs.
There’s no orange on the upper wings of the female. The underwings, just visible here, have a pattern of green across the white.
A robin hiding in a blackthorn bush as it sang. Picture taken a month or so ago, so the leaves were still just opening on the bush and the robin wasn’t really hidden.
Marsham’s nomad bees (Nomada marshamella), which look more like wasps than than the bees they actually are.
Several were flying around a niche in a stone wall, possibly the site of the nest of one of the bee species that the juveniles parasite on: the adults feed on a wide range of plant flowers.
I’m about to go into hospital for an operation on my broken knee. That probably means some time when I won’t be up to getting out of the front door under my own stream, quite likely that I won’t even be managing to get to the computer to write more posts.
A few posts are already waiting to appear: there’ll be something new every day for just over a fortnight. I’ve more pictures in hand that I haven’t got round to drafting post for yet. Hopefully there won’t be too long a delay before I start dealing with them. And then full normal service should be resumed as soon as possible.
A lesser black backed gull flying overhead, low enough that its picture more or less filled the frame.