Ox-eye daisies growing tall. These were among the wetland vegetation by the Compton Park pond.
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Chafer on a leaf
Chafer, possibly a common chafer or a Welsh chafer, resting on a nettle leaf.
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Purple: unbellifer about to open
I don’t know which of the many types of umbellifer this was. Bit the dark purple of the stem and the protective leaves surrounding the flowers, just about to open, was distinctive.
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Pale: swan and cygnets
Some of this year’s cygnets on West Park lake early one morning, together with one of the parent birds.
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Yellow, red: garden broom
A vivid dash of red makes the flowers of this cultivated broom more striking than those of the wild variety.
A single male azure damselfly. It kept resting on bulrush leaves on the Compton Park pond, presumably in the hope of attracting females, though I couldn’t see aqny signs of any around.
There was one large red damselfly, also male. when I arrived. As soon as it spotted me, it moved to hide itself in the vegetation.