I don’t know if it’s the places I went walking last month, but the red soldier beetles seemed to all be on yarrow flowers this year.
This plant had attracted several when I passed. One pair were clasped together, mating. I couldn’t count just how many more there were. Some were grazing on the flower. Others were appearing briefly as they walked along the flower’s lower side.
Already a month ago, when these pictures were taken, the sloes on the blackthorn hedge in the Barley Field had filled out and were on the path to ripening.
Blackbird with a dirty beak, from probing the soil for things to eat.
Bunches of viburnum (guelder rose) berries (or fruit or whatever they are) starting to turn from green to red about a month ago.
A green shield bug taking a brief rest on the leaf of a bay bush. Both the texture and the predominant colour of the upper surface of the buglooked like an excellent match to those of the leaf it was standing on.
Just beginning to develop, very unripe and still green, haws perhaps half the size they will eventually reach. This is how they were just about a month ago.